Govind Nihalani

Govind Nihalani

Рождение : 1940-12-19, Karachi, British India

История

Govind Nihalani is an Indian film director, cinematographer, screenwriter and producer, known for his works in Hindi cinema. He has been the recipient of six National Film Awards, and five Bollywood Filmfare Awards. In 1996, his script for Drohkaal was adapted by Kamal Hassan for its Tamil remake, Kuruthipunal, which subsequently became India's official entry for the 68th Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film category.

Профиль

Govind Nihalani

Фильмы

Up Up & Up
Screenplay
Up Up & Up
Director
She and Others
Director
Anirudh Godbole and Naina are a contemporary upwardly mobile middle-class Maharashtrian couple. They stay with their 2 daughters in a comfortable flat in suburban Mumbai. Anirudh has a well-paid job in a corporate firm and Naina is a rising singer. They invite few of their close friends over dinner to celebrate the release of Naina's music album. The evening begins on a very pleasant and relaxed note. Soon they witness the crime being committed in the neighbouring building and the evening turns into a moral hell for all.
Наставник
Cinematography
Двое влюбленных, Фархан и Алийя, оказываются вовлеченными в водоворот межнациональных конфликтов, спровоцированных политическими интригами. Столкнувшись с ложью, притворством и предательством окружающих, они проявляют недюжинную силу духа, чтобы сохранить свою любовь и не потерять собственного достоинства
Наставник
Writer
Двое влюбленных, Фархан и Алийя, оказываются вовлеченными в водоворот межнациональных конфликтов, спровоцированных политическими интригами. Столкнувшись с ложью, притворством и предательством окружающих, они проявляют недюжинную силу духа, чтобы сохранить свою любовь и не потерять собственного достоинства
Наставник
Producer
Двое влюбленных, Фархан и Алийя, оказываются вовлеченными в водоворот межнациональных конфликтов, спровоцированных политическими интригами. Столкнувшись с ложью, притворством и предательством окружающих, они проявляют недюжинную силу духа, чтобы сохранить свою любовь и не потерять собственного достоинства
Наставник
Director
Двое влюбленных, Фархан и Алийя, оказываются вовлеченными в водоворот межнациональных конфликтов, спровоцированных политическими интригами. Столкнувшись с ложью, притворством и предательством окружающих, они проявляют недюжинную силу духа, чтобы сохранить свою любовь и не потерять собственного достоинства
Body
Producer
A jobless married man falls for a multinational company's offer to provide his family a life of luxury for the rest of their lives in exchange for body organs
Body
Director
A jobless married man falls for a multinational company's offer to provide his family a life of luxury for the rest of their lives in exchange for body organs
Под дулом пистолета
Director
Слабовольный Нахар Сингх, отец Ишана, связан с крестным отцом мафии, который решает заняться строительным бизнесом, чтобы отмыть криминальные деньги. Только после убийства отца и встречи с танцовщицей Суман Ишан осознает, что идет по острию ножа и что мафия не остановится ни перед чем, если на карту поставлены огромные деньги. Он решает нанести удар первым..
Mother Of 1084
Cinematography
Dibyanath Chatterji, his bank-employed wife, Sujata, and only child, a son, Brati, live a middle-class existence in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, circa early 1970s. Sujata is a quiet, devout Hindu, religious, and compassionate woman, and Brati has finished his school and is now attending college. His parents are proud of him, and keep track of his progress. Then their world is shattered during the early hours, when they are informed by the police that Brati has been killed.
Mother Of 1084
Screenplay
Dibyanath Chatterji, his bank-employed wife, Sujata, and only child, a son, Brati, live a middle-class existence in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, circa early 1970s. Sujata is a quiet, devout Hindu, religious, and compassionate woman, and Brati has finished his school and is now attending college. His parents are proud of him, and keep track of his progress. Then their world is shattered during the early hours, when they are informed by the police that Brati has been killed.
Mother Of 1084
Producer
Dibyanath Chatterji, his bank-employed wife, Sujata, and only child, a son, Brati, live a middle-class existence in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, circa early 1970s. Sujata is a quiet, devout Hindu, religious, and compassionate woman, and Brati has finished his school and is now attending college. His parents are proud of him, and keep track of his progress. Then their world is shattered during the early hours, when they are informed by the police that Brati has been killed.
Mother Of 1084
Director
Dibyanath Chatterji, his bank-employed wife, Sujata, and only child, a son, Brati, live a middle-class existence in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, circa early 1970s. Sujata is a quiet, devout Hindu, religious, and compassionate woman, and Brati has finished his school and is now attending college. His parents are proud of him, and keep track of his progress. Then their world is shattered during the early hours, when they are informed by the police that Brati has been killed.
Sanshodhan
Director
The amendment in the law, making it compulsory for one-third of the Gram Panchayat representatives to be women, is not received favourably by the ruling Sarpanch of the village, Thakur Ratan Singh. Although he puts up a front of being in favour of the idea, along with his son Inder Singh, he conspires to field wives of friends, whom he hopes he can control through their husbands and through the caste network. Vidya, wife of Bhanwar Singh who is indebted to the Thakur, is one of the newly elected women Panchayat members. Vidya, who is educated, notices that the political empowerment of women is only on paper and in reality decision-making still continues to be with the manipulative old guard. Vidya decides it is time for a change.
Kuruthipunal
Original Story
Adhi, a policeman, plans Operation Dhanush to catch a dreaded terrorist, Badri, and save innocent lives. However, when Badri, threatens his family, he must choose between his duty and his loved ones.
Период восстания
Cinematography
Захватывающий саспенс-триллер о преданном полицейском, который возглавляет отряд под прикрытием против группы террористов. Ему удается поймать их лидера, но он обнаруживает, что им и его семьей мысленно и физически манипулируют коварный террорист и его последователи.
Период восстания
Writer
Захватывающий саспенс-триллер о преданном полицейском, который возглавляет отряд под прикрытием против группы террористов. Ему удается поймать их лидера, но он обнаруживает, что им и его семьей мысленно и физически манипулируют коварный террорист и его последователи.
Период восстания
Director
Захватывающий саспенс-триллер о преданном полицейском, который возглавляет отряд под прикрытием против группы террористов. Ему удается поймать их лидера, но он обнаруживает, что им и его семьей мысленно и физически манипулируют коварный террорист и его последователи.
Rukmavati's Mansion
Director of Photography
Federico Garcia Lorca's Spanish play The House of Bernarda Alba Indianised in it's setting and treatment of the story.
Rukmavati's Mansion
Screenplay
Federico Garcia Lorca's Spanish play The House of Bernarda Alba Indianised in it's setting and treatment of the story.
Rukmavati's Mansion
Director
Federico Garcia Lorca's Spanish play The House of Bernarda Alba Indianised in it's setting and treatment of the story.
Pita
Director of Photography
The story depicts the vulnerability of a man who is victimized by his wife who plots to prove his husband mentally insane. She is in disagreement with his husband on how her daughter should be raised and what she should become. She thinks that if she declares his husband insane she would be able to decide for her daughters future. She knowingly creates confusion and tells his husband that he cannot be sure that he is the father of their daughter. Captian starts to believe that the daughter who was everything for him may not be his daughter and becomes insane and his wife gets the custody of her daughter as she wished.
Pita
Screenplay
The story depicts the vulnerability of a man who is victimized by his wife who plots to prove his husband mentally insane. She is in disagreement with his husband on how her daughter should be raised and what she should become. She thinks that if she declares his husband insane she would be able to decide for her daughters future. She knowingly creates confusion and tells his husband that he cannot be sure that he is the father of their daughter. Captian starts to believe that the daughter who was everything for him may not be his daughter and becomes insane and his wife gets the custody of her daughter as she wished.
Pita
Director
The story depicts the vulnerability of a man who is victimized by his wife who plots to prove his husband mentally insane. She is in disagreement with his husband on how her daughter should be raised and what she should become. She thinks that if she declares his husband insane she would be able to decide for her daughters future. She knowingly creates confusion and tells his husband that he cannot be sure that he is the father of their daughter. Captian starts to believe that the daughter who was everything for him may not be his daughter and becomes insane and his wife gets the custody of her daughter as she wished.
Drishti
Director
Sandhya and Nikhil have been married for eight years and live a wealthy lifestyle in Bombay, along with a daughter, Rashmi. However, their lives change when Nikhil has an affair with his assistant Vrinda and divorces Sandhya.
Оцепенение
Director
Оба главных героя — профсоюзные лидеры Верма и Кришнан, люди убежденные, честные и одержимые благой целью — облегчить жизнь рабочих на заводе. Но пути для этого они выбирают разные: Верма и его сторонники уже пять лет ведут постоянную и упорную борьбу с администрацией завода, постепенно завоевывая увеличение зарплаты и расширение прав и свобод... Кришнан же полон нетерпения, он экстремист, и тактика медленной и кропотливой работы ему не по душе. Силовой нажим, шантаж администрации, забастовки — только этими мерами, считает он, можно добиться победы.
Party
Director of Photography
A party is held in honor of the recipient of a literary prize, which attracts the cultural elite of the town. Missing is Amrit, a writer who left a promising literary career to become an activist among the tribals. His attempt to bridge the chasm between words and deed haunts those at the party. Based on a Marathi play by Mahesh Elkunchwa.
Party
Director
A party is held in honor of the recipient of a literary prize, which attracts the cultural elite of the town. Missing is Amrit, a writer who left a promising literary career to become an activist among the tribals. His attempt to bridge the chasm between words and deed haunts those at the party. Based on a Marathi play by Mahesh Elkunchwa.
Satyajit Ray
Cinematography
Documentary on director Satyajit Ray, featuring an extensive interview and clips from his films, and location shooting of his film "The Home and the World."
Полуправда
Director
Только что принятый на работу неопытный полицейский сталкивается с коррупцией, любовью и жестокостью.
Ганди
Second Unit Director of Photography
В 1869 году, когда Ганди родился, его страна ещё была украшением Британской империи и одной из драгоценностей королевы Виктории. 30 января 1948 года, в день его убийства, Индия была свободной. Это стало плодом его трудов, трудов долгой титанической жизни.
Ганди
Second Unit Director
В 1869 году, когда Ганди родился, его страна ещё была украшением Британской империи и одной из драгоценностей королевы Виктории. 30 января 1948 года, в день его убийства, Индия была свободной. Это стало плодом его трудов, трудов долгой титанической жизни.
The Victor
Director of Photography
Vijeta (The Victor) is the coming of age story of Angad (Kunal Kapoor). Confused like any other teenager trying to find himself and caught in between the marital problems of his mother Neelima (Rekha) and father Nihal (Shashi Kapoor). It is time for him to decide what he wants to do with his life. To select a profession and be someone, Angad chooses to become a fighter pilot with the Indian Air Force. What follows is his struggle to become a victor both with his self and the outer world.
The Victor
Director
Vijeta (The Victor) is the coming of age story of Angad (Kunal Kapoor). Confused like any other teenager trying to find himself and caught in between the marital problems of his mother Neelima (Rekha) and father Nihal (Shashi Kapoor). It is time for him to decide what he wants to do with his life. To select a profession and be someone, Angad chooses to become a fighter pilot with the Indian Air Force. What follows is his struggle to become a victor both with his self and the outer world.
The Victor
Writer
Vijeta (The Victor) is the coming of age story of Angad (Kunal Kapoor). Confused like any other teenager trying to find himself and caught in between the marital problems of his mother Neelima (Rekha) and father Nihal (Shashi Kapoor). It is time for him to decide what he wants to do with his life. To select a profession and be someone, Angad chooses to become a fighter pilot with the Indian Air Force. What follows is his struggle to become a victor both with his self and the outer world.
Крик раненого
Cinematography
Рассказ о судьбе крестьянина, жену которого изнасиловал, а потом убил помещик. Вину же за варварское убийство пытаются приписать этому беззащитному, затравленному человеку.
Крик раненого
Director
Рассказ о судьбе крестьянина, жену которого изнасиловал, а потом убил помещик. Вину же за варварское убийство пытаются приписать этому беззащитному, затравленному человеку.
Kondura
Director of Photography
The film involves the life of a young man who comes to believe that he has been bestowed supernatural powers. As the story unfolds, this boon eventually leads to a tragedy.
Трудная роль
Cinematography
Головокружительную карьеру сделала бедная крестьянская девочка Уша. И с самого детстве ей всем помогал ей сосед Кешав. Небескорыстный Кешав мечтал, что когда Уша станет прославленной актрисой, он, женившись на ней, обеспечит себе безбедную старость.
Manthan
Cinematography
A veterinarian, Dr. Rao, makes a visit to a village, where he intends to commence a co-operative society dairy for the betterment of the rural people. The film is set against the backdrop of the White Revolution of India (Operation Flood) which started in 1970. It was entirely crowdfunded by 500,000 farmers who donated Rs. 2 each.
Конец ночи
Cinematography
Вишам — младший сын влиятельного деревенского землевладельца —заминдара. В отличие от отца, который ради достижения своих цепей не гнушается нарушать закон, у Вишама нет вредных привычек. Он женат на Рукмани и хранит ей верность. Вскоре в деревню приезжает новый учитель с женой Сушилой и однажды поздно, под конец ночи, Вишам видит как несколько человек насильно захватывают Сушилу и увозят ее прочь...
Росток
Director of Photography
Бедная крестьянка Лакшми живет вместе с глухонемым мужем в небольшой индийской деревушке. Вместе с ним она работает на богатого землевладельца. Сын богача Сария бросает учебу и возвращается домой, чтобы следить за поместьем и жениться на девушке Сарой, с которой они помолвлены с раннего детства.
Kaadu
Cinematography
A rural drama about the rivalry between two villages as seen through the eyes of a young boy, Kitti.
Silence! The Court Is in Session
Assistant Director
A political and social satire on middle-class society's hypocrisy. A group of teachers plan to stage a play in a village. When a cast-member does not show up, a local stagehand is asked to replace him. An improvised, free-flowing 'rehearsal' is arranged and a mock trial is staged to help the novice understand court procedures. A (mock) charge of infanticide is levelled against Miss Benare, another cast-member. Suddenly the pretend-play turns into an accusatory game when it emerges from the trial that Miss Benare is carrying an out-of-wedlock child from her failed illicit relationship with Professor Damle, the missing cast-member.
Silence! The Court Is in Session
Producer
A political and social satire on middle-class society's hypocrisy. A group of teachers plan to stage a play in a village. When a cast-member does not show up, a local stagehand is asked to replace him. An improvised, free-flowing 'rehearsal' is arranged and a mock trial is staged to help the novice understand court procedures. A (mock) charge of infanticide is levelled against Miss Benare, another cast-member. Suddenly the pretend-play turns into an accusatory game when it emerges from the trial that Miss Benare is carrying an out-of-wedlock child from her failed illicit relationship with Professor Damle, the missing cast-member.