Satya Nagpaul

Movies

Crescent Night
Cinematography
After 15 years in prison, for committing a murder to save his father’s honour, Modan returns to his village in Punjab. In his absence, the village’s power structure has shifted towards a landowner, to the detriment of his family. Worse still: his brother is the landowner’s lapdog.
Aligarh
Director of Photography
Set in the city of Uttar Pradesh and based on true events, the plot revolves around Dr Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras who taught Marathi at Aligarh Muslim University. He was sacked from his position of Reader and Chair of Modern Indian Languages, on charges of homosexuality. A sting operation was conducted by a TV channel which showed him in an embrace with a rickshaw puller, at his house inside the campus.
Zinda Bhaag
Cinematography
Three young men try to escape the reality of their everyday lives and succeed in ways they had least expected.
Alms for a Blind Horse
Cinematography
A family living in a Punjab village deals with social and labor inequities until a fight breaks out during a lunar eclipse.