Kumar Shahani Movies

Rahul, the son-in-law of an old industrialist and one of the heirs to his fortune, clashes with Dinesh, the industrialist’s nephew who is...

The story centers around a small town entrepreneur named Maniram who makes a major profit by cheating people and selling them tainted food. His...

A music student listens to stories and legends about the birth and evolution of the Khayal form of classical Indian singing. These stories are...

Set in the Bengali Renaissance of the 1930s and 1940s. A group of young intellectuals get embroiled in the struggle for Indian independence,...

Indian documentary about Indian film history and P. K. Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India and guardian of Indian cinema. He...

In modern society, communication between individuals is becoming more and more difficult. Two persons may be in the same physical environment, yet it...

Mother Nature and human emotions are placed in this melding of myth and aesthetic enigma in Kumar Shahani's short film of 25 minutes starring Mita...

Tackling the theme of identity from the perspective of Asian and Afro-Caribbean actors, the film emerged from an acting workshop exploring the...

Taran lives with her father in a small town on the cusp of industrialization. Taran has a strained relationship with her father, who is increasingly...

An experiment and a homage, Bhavantarana is a spiritually intoxicating documentary about classical Odissi dance maestro Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra.

Short film made at Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute.

Bamboo Flute is Kumar Shahani’s cinematic tribute to the flute and its importance to Indian civilisation.

Documentary film based on the artist Akbar Padamsee.

Kumar Shahani's incomplete film on psychoanalyst Wilfred R. Bion.

Documentary filmed in b/w on 35mm made for Films Division, India.

Short film shot on 16mm Kodachrome film, made in collaboration with psychoanalyst Udayan Patel.

Programme on film appreciation made for Bombay TV.

Documentary on 35mm (censored but not released) made for Films Division, India.

Documentary filmed in Technicolor on 35mm for Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL).

Feature documentary, completed but unreleased.