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Bollywood film director Ketan Mehta
Ketan Metha was born in Navsari in Gujarat. Ketan Metha has done most of his education in New Delhi. He had the inclination to get into filmmaking and therefore to complete that aspiration he completed his graduation in film direction from Film and Television Institute of India. Ketan Metha’s brand of filmmaking is quite different to that of the other Bollywood filmmakers. He makes all his film on subjects that have been recently very hard to understand except for of course Mangal Pandey. But undoubtedly he has made some really fantastic cinema that the world is testimony of his brilliance. Ketan Metha’s first directorial venture was the movie ‘Bhavni Bhavai’. India is a country distributed into regions and languages and state borders. But the festivals we celebrate our mostly common though they can have different names for the same festival. Holi is a festival that the entire nation celebrates as one. In this film Ketan shows the unique splendors of Holi festival in its most majestic form. He revealed all the costumes and the intricate colors and the vibrant moods of folk dance. This movie won him instant acclaim and with his very first movie he showed that he had the flair for a different subject. He went on to make 'Mirch Masala' starring Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Om Puri and Suresh Oberoi(Vivek Oberoi's father) in leading roles, which is considered to be an extension of his earlier flick ‘Bhavni Bhavai’. This movie set him on the international stage as a director of international repute. The movie won the Best Film Award at the Hawaii Film Festival. After its success the movie was screened across fifty-two centers in the United States of America. Ketan Metha over the years has become associated with international awards. Many of his movies have been selected for screening or in the competition category of international film festivals on a regular basis. Nantes in France and the Moscow Film Festival are the two most noted film festivals here he has won much acclaim over the years. His international awards include Best Art Direction, Best Jury Award, Best Film and Best Editing Awards. He has till date made 8 movies, a television serial and 7 documentaries to date. In 1992 he made the movie ‘Maya Memsaab’ starring his wife and actress Deepa Sahi and Farook Sheik. In 1993 he made the biopic ‘Sadar’ on the life of Sadar Vallabhbhai Patel. He also directed Bollywood superstar in the movie “Oh Darling Yeh Hai India”. This movie was a complete horror. To come from a director of his class and reputation you would like to believe that something might have hit him in the head badly and the consequence was that he made a film like this. But he proved that it was not a mistake or error he committed in judgment, as he then went on to make another ridiculous movie ‘Aar Ya Paar’ in 1995 starring Kamal Sidhu, Deepa Sahi and Jackie Shroff and Paresh Rawal. But what he added this time was a flick what had chic like touch to it. He added a few hot scenes, nice music and a plot where the actor is a womanizer and he loves his money more than his women. Whatever the plot was he made another blunder and the movie just bombed at the box office. But he then revived his career and made ‘Mangal Pandey’. Ketan considers this movie to not be a biography of Mangal Pandey the freedom fighter but a ballad of the start of the freedom struggle that had its roots in Mangal Pandey. Ketan wanted to make Mangal Pandey very much earlier than 2005. He first though of casting Bollywood Legend Amitabh Bachchan and then at a later stage he considered casting Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt but he time and again felt that movie of the proportions of his idea of Mangal Pandey would not be ideal then. He Finally cast Aamir Khan in the role of Mangal Pandey and Aamir did complete justice to the character while acting opposite to actress Rani Mukerji and Amisha Patel. The film had a successful start at the box office in its opening week and became an overall average grosser. It grossed Rs 17,20,00,000 in its first week.
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