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| Date of Birth :
30 Mar |
| Place of Birth :
Hyderabad, AP, India |
| Biography : |
Nagesh Kukunoor is a Bollywood filmmaker and actor. Nagesh was born and brought up in Hyderabad. He moved to Atlanta in 1988 and studied B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Osmania University and done his MS at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He worked as an environmental consultant in Atlanta before returning to India in 1997 to pursue his dreams in film making. In the interim, he had attended workshops in film and television. He studied acting at the Warehouse Actor's Theatre in Atlanta and in 1995, co-produced and directed a short film, One culture at a time.
After the success of his first movie Hyderabad Blues, he went on to work with well-known actors and experimented in several genres. Rockford was a coming-of-the-age movie set in a boarding school and co-starred Nandita Das. Bollywood Calling was a satirical look at the Bollywood industry through the eyes of a failed Hollywood actor and co-starred Om Puri, Navin Nischol and Perizaad Zorabian. His next movie, Teen Deewarein was a thriller, loosely inspired by The Shawshank Redemption; it had actors such as Naseeruddin Shah, Juhi Chawla and Jackie Shroff. His next venture supposed to star Amitabh Bachchan in the role of a chef and tentatively titled Tandoor has been put on hold for undisclosed reasons. He made a sequel to Hyderabad Blues but it was not successful. Unlike in his earlier movies, he did not star in his 2005 movie Iqbal. So far, he himself has written the story and screenplay for all his movies and hopes to continue the same in future too.
He believes that the primary purpose of movies is to serve as a medium of entertainment and opposes the idea that films must teach; though he would consider it all the better if even the latter happens. This belief of his found expression in his movie Iqbal, which looks at the story of a deaf and dumb cricketer hailing from a poor Muslim family who wants to make it to the Indian cricket team.
Nagesh Kukunoor's movie Dor (2006) got rave reviews in India. Dor tells the moving story of love, loss, friendship, hope and redemption. It is a tale of two women from two different worlds. |
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