Jag Mundhra
































Jag Mundhra
Born
Jagmohan Mundhra


(1948-10-29)29 October 1948

Nagpur, India
Died 4 September 2011(2011-09-04) (aged 62)

Mumbai, India
Residence
Los Angeles, United States
Alma mater
Michigan State University
IIT Bombay
Occupation Director
Awards
Zanzibar International Film Festival Golden Dhow (2001)
Bollywood Movie Awards (2001)
Political Film Society, USA (PFS) Award - Peace Category (2004)
Audience Choice Award Bermuda International Film Festival (2001)

Jag Mundhra (born Jagmohan Mundhra 29 October 1948 – 4 September 2011) was an Indian American director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his early career as an American exploitation film writer-director.[1][2] After his first dramas, Suraag, and the socially-relevant film, Kamla,[3] Mundhra directed, in the late 1980s and the 1990s, a string of horror and erotic thriller movies for theatrical distribution and direct to video, including The Jigsaw Murders (1988), Halloween Night (1988), Night Eyes (1990), The Other Women (1992), L.A. Goddess (1993), Sexual Malice (1994), Tales of The Kama Sutra: The Perfumed Garden (2000), and Tales of The Kama Sutra 2: Monsoon (2001).[4]


Beginning with Bawandar (2000), which he directed under the name Jagmohan, Mundhra was back to issue-oriented films. Bawander is about the fight of a poor woman for justice and was based on the story of a Rajasthani woman Bhanwari Devi.[5] After the film's release Ashok Gehlot, the chief minister of Rajasthan called him and said, "Aapke bawandar ne bada bawander machaya hai." He gave Rs 50,000 and land for Bhanwari Devi and also money for her son's education. To Mundhra, "It's not a movie about rape, but the empowerment of a woman. This character could be fictitious and yet the story would have had the same powerful message".[6] In his own words, Kamla, Bawander and Provoked are his trology of strong women centric films.[7] At the time of his death he was working on a film based on the life of Sonia Gandhi.[8] Mundhra was also a life member of International Film And Television Club of Asian Academy of Film & Television.




Contents






  • 1 Early life


  • 2 IIT Bombay and United States


  • 3 Death


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





Early life


Mundhra was born at Nagpur,[9] and grew up in a Marwari locality in Calcutta, in a conservative family where films were frowned upon. He nevertheless nurtured a secret ambition to become a filmmaker. His childhood as of other Indians of his generation, was a tough one, counting pennies for the tram that rode to the other, affluent side of the city, and withstanding his family's strict traditions.[6][10]


Says Mundhra, "The family was very conservative and my grand mother was very strict and we were allowed to see maybe a couple of films a year and that too of the Har Har Mahadev variety. As a child I never saw myself as a young Marwari boy but a lot beyond that. In those days, the word global citizen was not there, but inside I felt like one".



IIT Bombay and United States


A key influence on Mundhra was his admission to the highly competitive and prestigious IIT Bombay. In his words, "I had studied in a Hindi medium school up to 9th grade and always admired people who spoke English fluently. IIT taught me a lot of humility. In my wing, there were students who were from different states, and as far as English went, this person from Bihar who couldn’t speak English to save his life outshone everyone else with his brilliance. I did well, but realized very early on while in IIT that engineering was not for me. I would be very unhappy if I was to live my life being an engineer, but I stuck it out because I didn’t want to let my parents down".[6] He then went for his MS in Electrical Engineering, However, he switched to a Phd program in motion pictures at Michigan State University, before embarking on his film career.[1]



Death


He died in Mumbai on 4 September 2011, aged 62, from pneumonia and multiple organ failure.[11]



References





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  2. ^ "http://www.indiablooms.com/BollywoodDetailsPage/bollywoodDetails040911a.php". External link in |title= (help)
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  3. ^ "Kamla (1984)".


  4. ^ "Jag Mundhra". Archived from the original on 21 September 2016. Retrieved 9 June 2016.


  5. ^ "South Asian American Films and Arts Association". Archived from the original on 25 October 2008. Retrieved 9 May 2008.


  6. ^ abc "Dr. Jagmohan Mundhra controversy". Retrieved 29 Sep 2009.


  7. ^ "Jagmohan Mundhra speaks on Provoked". Archived from the original on 13 July 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2009.


  8. ^ India Times


  9. ^ "Jag Mundhra".


  10. ^ "http://www2.iitbombay.org/sfbay/ypanels_June_7_bios.htm". Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. External link in |title= (help)


  11. ^ http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-09-05/india/30114963_1_jagmohan-mundhra-film-nri-director




External links



  • Jag Mundhra on IMDb








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