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Lalit Vachani is an Indian documentary filmmaker.

Life

Vachani studied at the St. Stephen's College, Delhi University and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

He was a visiting lecturer at the Mass Communication Research Centre in Delhi from 1990 to 1998. He also taught courses on film production at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the Amherst College.He has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Media, Culture and History at the New York University in 1999,^[1] and a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute and the Lichtenberg-Kolleg in 2011–12.^{[2] [3]}

Vachani's films have received support from the Soros/Sundance Documentary Foundation, the Jan Vrijman Fund and the India Foundation for the Arts.^[1]

Works

• Recasting Selves (2019, 80 minutes).^[4]
• An Ordinary Election (2015, 125 minutes).^[5]
• Tales from Napa (2010, 26 minutes).^[6]
• The Salt Stories (2008, 84 minutes), Winner of the Best documentary film, MIAAC 2009 and the 2nd prize in Film South Asia Kathmandu, 2009.^{[7] [8] [9]}
• In Search of Gandhi (2007, 52 minutes), Winner of the EBU Special Golden Link award, 2008.^{[10] [11]}
• Rebuilding with Richie (2006, 27 minutes)^[12]
• Natak Jari Hai (The Play Goes on, 2005, 83min.).^{[13] [14]}
• The Chhara Projects (2003, 63 minutes).^[12]
• The Men in the Tree (2002, 98 minutes).^{[15] [16] [17]}
• The Starmaker (1997, 74 minutes)^{[18] [19]}
• The Academy (1995, 52 minutes).^[12]
• The Boy in the Branch (1993, 27 minutes), produced for the Channel 4 television, U. K.^{[20] [21]}

Bibliography

• Book: Kumar, Amitava . Husband of a Fanatic . Penguin Books India . 2004 . 0143031899 .
• Book: Nussbaum, Martha Craven. Martha Nussbaum. The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future. 2008. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-03059-6.

External links

• • Recasting Selves review on The Seventh Art

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lalit Vachani: About . lalitvachani.com . 2014-11-04.
2. Web site: Lalit Vachani . Max Planck Institute . 2014-11-04.
3. Web site: Lalit Vachani . Lichtenberg-Kolleg . 2014-11-04.
4. https://theseventhart.info/2019/10/09/recasting-selves-2019/ ′Recasting Selves′, The Seventh Art
5. http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/not-an-ordinary-film/article7587091.ece ′Not an Ordinary Film′, The Hindu
6. http://www.lalitvachani.com/film08.html Tales from Napa, lalitvachani.com
7. http://www.lalitvachani.com/film07.html The Salt Stories, lalitvachani.com
8. News: Kalpana. Sharma . The Other Half: Will anything change? . The Hindu . 26 December 2009 . 2014-11-04.
9. News: Pragya. Tiwari . That Land that Forgot Mahatma . Tehelka . 16 October 2010 . 2014-11-04.
10. http://www.lalitvachani.com/film01.html In Search of Gandhi, lalitvachani.com
11. Web site: Dimple . Punjabi . In Search of Gandhi (documentary) - review . culturazzi.org . 2014-11-04 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141105013353/http://www.culturazzi.org/cinema/in-search-of-gandhi-documentary-lalit-vachani . 5 November 2014 .
12. http://www.lalitvachani.com/film06.html Other films, lalitvachani.com
13. http://www.lalitvachani.com/film02.html The Play Goes on, lalitvachani.com
14. Bela. Malik . The Show Must Go On . Economic and Political Weekly . 16 September 2006 . 3926–3927 . 2014-11-04.
15. http://www.lalitvachani.com/film03.html The Men in the Tree, lalitvachani.com
16. News: Sudhanva. Deshpande . Breeding little fascists . Frontline . 26 October 2002 . 2014-10-10.
17. Web site: The Men in the Tree - review . Ekta: South Asian progressive network . 2014-11-04.
18. http://www.lalitvachani.com/film04.html The Starmaker, lalitvachani.com
19. News: Madhu. Jain . Behind the Curtains . India Today . 29 September 1997 . 2014-11-04.
20. http://www.lalitvachani.com/film05.html The Boy in the Branch, lalitvachani.com
21. http://www.lalitvachani.com/boy-press.html The Boy in the Branch - Excerpts from Press reviews, lalitvachani.com