Madhur Bhandarkar

Profession: Director , Producer, Screenplay, Story Writer, Supporting Actor

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Madhur Bhandarkar Personal Details

Also Know as :- Madhur Bhandarkar
Profession:- Director , Producer, Screenplay, Story Writer, Supporting Actor
Gender :- male
Birthdate:- 26 Aug 1968
Status:- Married
Debut Year:- 1995
Active Years:- Till Today

Madhur Bhandarkar Physique Details

Height :- 175
Weight:- 74
Eye Color :- Brown
Hair Color :- Black

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Spouse Details :- Renu Namboodiri

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Madhur Bhandarkar (born 26 August 1968) is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer. In 2016,Bhandarkar was honoured with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian honour, by the Government of India.

The the critically acclaimed and box office success Chandni Bar (2001), won h .. Read More

Madhur Bhandarkar Early Life

Bhandarkar hails from a Marathi and Konkani speaking Gaud Saraswat Brahmin family. He is a school drop-out. He came from a middle-class family. As a result, Madhur had to take up various jobs.

Madhur Bhandarkar Personal Life

Bhandarkar hails from a Marathi and Konkani speaking Gaud Saraswat Brahmin family. He is a school drop-out. He came from a middle-class family. As a result, Madhur had to take up various jobs. He worked at a video store as an errand boy and dropped off cassettes to people from many walks of life .. Read More

Madhur Bhandarkar Career

Madhur Bhandarkar worked in a video cassette library in Khar, a suburb of Mumbai. This gave him access to a large collection of movies and he studied film-making through it.After trying his skills with small-time filmmakers as an assistant, Bhandarkar landed up as an assistant to Ram Gopal Varma. He .. Read More

Madhur Bhandarkar worked in a video cassette library in Khar, a suburb of Mumbai. This gave him access to a large collection of movies and he studied film-making through it.

After trying his skills with small-time filmmakers as an assistant, Bhandarkar landed up as an assistant to Ram Gopal Varma. He even played his first cameo in his 1995 film Rangeela where he was the associate director to Ram Gopal Varma. A couple of years later he made his directorial debut with Trishakti which took more than three years to make and released in 1999. The film had a relatively low key cast and was largely ignored at the box office. After two years he directed Chandni Bar (2001) starring Tabu and Atul Kulkarni with a budget of Rs 15 million. The film was critically acclaimed and a box office success, which took Bhandarkar into the top league of filmmakers in Bollywood. He received his first National Award for this film and thereon won National awards for his films Page-3 and Traffic Signal. His movie Fashion (2008) also won National Awards for Best Actress (Priyanka Chopra) and for Best Supporting Actress (Kangana Ranaut).

Madhur was conferred PL Deshpande Award a.k.a. Zenith Asia Award for significantly shaping the film making culture in his unique works and he has been described as 'the Film Maker of the First Decade of the 21st Century'. On the Silver Jubilee Year of Aashay Film Club, award ceremony took place on 16 Nov at National Film Archive Theatre during the eighth Pulotsav – An Art Festival in Pune. PL Deshpande was a renowned writer, stage and film actor and his literary works are still revered in Maharashtra and others parts of the world. In his honour, Zenith Asia Award was given to Madhur Bhandarkar and his film Chandni Bar was also screened during the fest amongst landmark 25 films from world cinema.

In Nov, 2010 National Film Archive of India (NFAI) announced to preserve all the films of Madhur Bhandarkar. Chandni Bar, Page-3, Corporate, Traffic Signal, Fashion and Jail found space in Government's Archival data for Indian films.

He has also depicted gay characters very well in his movies like Page 3,Traffic Signal and Fashion.

Madhur Bhandarkar Filmography

#	Released Date	Type	Credited As	Movie
1	07 Apr 2023	Film	Producer	Circuitt
2	02 Dec 2022	Film	DirectorProducer	India Lockdown
3	23 Sep 2022	Film	DirectorScreenplay	Babli Bouncer
4	03 Dec 2021	Film	Producer	Avijatrik
5	28 Jul 2017	Film	DirectorStory writerScreenplay	Indu Sarkar
6	25 Sep 2015	Film	ProducerDirectorStory WriterScreenplay	Calendar Girls
7	21 Sep 2012	Film	ProducerDirectorStory writerScreenplay	Heroine
8	30 Sep 2011	Film	Supporting Actor	Hum Tum Shabana
9	28 Jan 2011	Film	ProducerDirectorStory writerScreenplay	Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji
10	06 Nov 2009	Film	DirectorStory WriterScreenplay	Jail
11	29 Oct 2008	Film	Supporting Actor DirectorScreenplayProducer	Fashion
12	02 Feb 2007	Film	DirectorStory writerScreenplayDialogue	Traffic Signal