Gul Bahar Singh is a six time national award winning Indian film-maker. He received first national award in 1986 for his documentary film, Anukaran.
Early life
Singh was born in Pakur, Jharkhand in a Sikh family and he is the youngest child of his parents. He studied in Pakur, Kolkata, and Faridabad, after completing his graduation Singh self-trained himself to become a filmmaker.
Career
He started his career in 1980 with his first documentary "Weeds" on street children, which received very good response. He received first national award in 1986 for his documentary film Anukaran, a film on status of women in India. In 1991 he received national award for film Biotechnology; Some possibilities.
He made a long documentary for Doordarshan on life of noted Hindi writer Munshi Premchand starred Irrfan Khan as Premchand. In 1999 Hindi feature film Sundari produced by N.F.D.C. was screened in Calcutta film festivals and Participated in Vith, International film festivals in Sochi, Moscow and received Diploma for participation. He also won National award in 44th National Film Awards as best film on Family welfare for Bengali short film Bheet and won National award in 45th National Film Awards for Gotipua. The Goal feature Irfan Khan in main lead won Golden Lotus at 47th National Film Awards as best children film and received special Jury award at 11th, Cairo International Children's Film Festival held in Egypt, received special mention by the jury of International Federation of Film Societies in 2001 in Czech Republic. The film was also selected in India Panorama in 2001, and also participated in Golden Elephant Children's Film Festival in the same year. His feature film Dattak starring Rajit Kapoor and A. K. Hangal as main lead was the only Indian film which participated in the 5th Shanghai International Film Festival, China. In 2016, he made a feature-length biopic Ek Thi Rani Aisi Bhi starring Hema Malini and Vinod Khanna on the life of Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scendia of Gwalior.
Awards Year Film Gener Award 1986AnukaranDocumentary 33rd National Film Awards1992Biotechnology :Some possibilityDocumentary 38th National Film Awards1997BheetShort FilmNational Award1999GotipuaDocumentary 45th National Film Awards1999SundariFeature FilmCertificate of Participation.2000The GoalFeature FilmNational & International award2003Dhatri PannaShort Film 50th National Film Awards2003AbaidhaFeature FilmBest Actor (BFJA)Certificate of ParticipationsMontreal film festival2003Dalma Wild Life SanctuaryDocumentaryCertificate of Participation (Vatavaran)
Filmography YearFilmNote1980WeedsDocumentary1982The third handDocumentary1986AnukaranDocumentary1988UjjalaTelefilm1991Biotechnology :Some possibilityDocumentary1993BayenTelefilm1994Sawa ser GehoonTelefilm1995Sikhs & Five takhtsSerial1996Melody ManDocumentary1996PremchandSerial1996Jyon Mehndi ko RangSerial1996SeemantTelefilm1997BheetBengali short film1998BansuriwalaShort film1999GotipuaDocumentary1999SundariFeature film1999The GoalFeature film2001DattakFeature film2002SixerFeature film2002TandavFeature film2003DhatripannaShort film2003AbaidhaBengali feature film2004Dalma wild Life SanctuaryDocumentary2004SarandaDocumentary2004Shravani MelaDocumentary2005Do BehneSerial2006JogajogBengali Telefilm2007Nishi KutumbBengali serial2008Bhola Bhai PatelDocumentary2010Shahmal jatDocumentary2013Dalip Kaur TiwanaDocumentary2015Sarbat da BhalaDocumentary2017Ek Thi Rani Aisi BhiFeature film
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