Sunday, 15 September 2013

Actor-Filmmaker Pandit Gaurav Gautam with very interesting & brilliant personality Mr.Satyajit Bhatkal CREATOR-DIRECTOR of SATYAMEV-JAYATE. Hats-of for his great devotion... God bless him

FILMOGRAPHY:
Director (3 titles)
2012 Satyamev Jayate (TV series documentary) 
– Persons with Disabilities (2012) (series director)
– Intolerance to Love (2012)
– Every Life Is Precious (2012) (series director)

2011 Zokkomon (Writer-Director) with Walt Disney

2003 Chale Chalo: The Lunacy of Film Making (documentary)

2011 Zokkomon (story & screenplay)

2001 Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (production executive)

About Mr.Satyajit Bhatkal was born and raised in Mumbai. Son of Laila, a teacher working with children with special needs and Ramdas a leading publisher, Satyajit practiced law for over a decade. As a student and as a young lawyer, Satyajit was actively involved in important social and political causes and wrote extensively on them. He was the editor of the Marathi magazine Jagrutijwala. His experiences as an activist and as a lawyer led him to believe he had a story to tell and in his mid-thirties he quit law to work in film and television.

Satyajit was a part of the core production team of the landmark Hindi film, Lagaan and also directed India's first theatrically released documentary, 'Chale Chalo'. The English cut of that film, entitled 'Madness in the Desert' won a National Award and was also selected for the Locarno Film Festival. The films dealt with the human drama and struggle which made the film Lagaan possible. Satyajit also wrote 'The Spirit of Lagaan', one of the bestsellers of 2003, which was translated into three Indian languages.

Satyajit then wrote and directed 'Bombay Lawyers', a critically acclaimed mini-series, which dealt with important social issues in the format of fictionalized courtroom drama. This was broadcast by NDTV India.

Satyajit then teamed up with his long time collaborator Lancy Fernandes and his wife Svati to write Zokkomon, which was commissioned for production by the Walt Disney Company. The film is scheduled to release in April 2011.

Satyajit lives in Mumbai with his wife Svati and children Nayantara and Nishant

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