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Ashok Mehta is a Actor, Director, Dialogue, Producer, Director of Photography and Cinematography Indian
Ashok Mehta (1947- August 15, 2012) was a noted Indian film cinematographer, known for films such as Bandit Queen (1994), 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981) and Utsav (1984). He won the National Film Award for Best Cinematography twice, 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981) and Moksha (2000), the latter he also directed.
He worked both with directors of mainstream Bollywood, like Subhash Ghai (Ram Lakhan (1989), Saudagar (1991)) and Rajiv Rai (Gupt (1997)), Mukul Anand (Trimurti (1995)), as well as parallel cinema directors, like Shyam Benegal (Trikaal (1985), Mandi (1983)), Aparna Sen (36 Chowringhee Lane (1981), Paroma (1984)). He also worked on films, including Shekhar Kapoor's Bandit Queen (1994), Girish Karnad's Utsav (1984), Gulzar's Ijaazat (1987) and MF Hussain's Gaja Gamini (2000).
Early in 2012, he was diagnosed with lung cancer, and he died in Mumbai in August 2012, at the age of 65.
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Ashok Mehta
Ashok Mehta (1947- August 15, 2012) was a noted Indian film cinematographer, known for films such as Bandit Queen (1994), 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981) and Utsav (1984). He won the National Film Award for Best Cinematography twice, 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981) and Moksha (2000), the latter he also directed.
He worked both with directors of mainstream Bollywood, like Subhash Ghai (Ram Lakhan (1989), Saudagar (1991)) and Rajiv Rai (Gupt (1997)), Mukul Anand (Trimurti (1995)), as well as parallel cinema directors, like Shyam Benegal (Trikaal (1985), Mandi (1983)), Aparna Sen (36 Chowringhee Lane (1981), Paroma (1984)). He also worked on films, including Shekhar Kapoor's Bandit Queen (1994), Girish Karnad's Utsav (1984), Gulzar's Ijaazat (1987) and MF Hussain's Gaja Gamini (2000).
Early in 2012, he was diagnosed with lung cancer, and he died in Mumbai in August 2012, at the age of 65.
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Filmography of Ashok Mehta (32 films)
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Ijaazat (1987)
, 2h17Directed by Gulzar
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Actors Rekha, Naseeruddin Shah, Anuradha Patel, Dina Pathak, Shammi Kapoor, Sulabha Deshpande
Rating83%
The movie is a powerful story that deals with feminism and patriarchy in the middle class India. It is about the present and past of Mahender and Sudha together as well as separately. The movie starts with Mahender (Naseeruddin Shah) getting down at the railway station and making his way to the waiting room just as it starts to rain heavily. A woman, Sudha (Rekha), is already sitting in the waiting room. On seeing him, she tries to hide from him but later they confront each other.
Director
Moksha (2001)
Directed by Ashok Mehta
Genres Drama
Actors Arjun Rampal, Manisha Koirala, Kalpana Pandit., Suresh Oberoi, Mohan Gokhale, Sushma Seth
Rating61%
The story is about law graduate Vikram Saigal (Arjun Rampal) who is not happy with his lot at all. He is very idealistic and wants to battle corruption and society and change the world.
Scriptwriter
Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam (2002)
, 2h52Directed by K.S. Adiyaman
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Atul Agnihotri, Suman Ranganathan, Aishwarya Rai
Roles Dialogue
Rating54%
Dev Narayan (Alok Nath) lives with his widowed daughter Laxmi (Aruna Irani) and her children Radha and Prashant. Dev also looks after two orphaned children, Gopal and Nita. Laxmi believes that Dev is taking more care of Gopal and Nita, so she leaves the house with her children. Laxmi soon spots an orphaned boy on the streets and takes him in. Radha forms a sisterly bond with him and names him Suraj. Suraj has a particular passion for singing.
Producer
Moksha (2001)
Directed by Ashok Mehta
Genres Drama
Actors Arjun Rampal, Manisha Koirala, Kalpana Pandit., Suresh Oberoi, Mohan Gokhale, Sushma Seth
Roles Producer
Rating61%
The story is about law graduate Vikram Saigal (Arjun Rampal) who is not happy with his lot at all. He is very idealistic and wants to battle corruption and society and change the world.
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Teen Thay Bhai (2011)
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Om Puri, Shreyas Talpade, Deepak Dobriyal, Ragini Khanna
Roles Director of Photography
Rating43%
Teen Thay Bhai is the story of 3 brothers separated for many years and reunited by their grandfather's will. The movie is a remake of The Darjeeling Limited.
Hum Tum Aur Ghost (2010)
, 2h15Directed by Kabeer Kaushik
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Ghost films
Actors Arshad Warsi, Diya Mirza, Boman Irani, Sandhya Mridul, Zehra Naqvi, Shernaz Patel
Roles Director of Photography
Rating48%
In the world of Armaan (Arshad Warsi) and his girlfriend Gehna (Dia Mirza), life is truly beautiful, yet it's like walking on a tightrope. For Armaan, a debonair fashion photographer who is a charmer to the core and loved by all around him, life only gets better when he dates Gehna, a high-profile fashion magazine editor. Life is picture perfect and mash; a doting girlfriend and a job where his expertise makes him the most-wanted photographer in the London fashion world! Armaan has learnt that his chronic insomnia is, however, not a function of any sleeping disorder. The truth is that he hears voices; voices that torture him; voices that are disturbing him.
Shortkut (2009)
, 2h36Directed by Neeraj Vora
Genres Comedy
Actors Akshaye Khanna, Amrita Rao, Arshad Warsi, Chunky Pandey, Simi Garewal, Ali Asgar
Roles Director of Photography
Rating35%
The story focuses on Shekhar (Akshaye Khanna), who is currently an assistant director, hoping to write and direct his own movie soon. His friend Raju (Arshad Warsi) is a struggling actor who has been waiting for Shekhar to write a film script so he can star in. However, when Shekhar rejects him as the film's hero, Raju decides to steal Shekhar's film script and release the film under his own name. The film is released and turns out to be an blockbuster, leading Raju to stardom. Heartbroken Shekhar, at this time, is left by his girlfriend Mansi (Amrita Rao). Lack of confidence, Shekhar writes an new and better film script and wants to star Raju in it, however when Raju rejects the script, Shekhar decides to film the movie without Raju knowing he is in it. Shekhar and his low-budget film crew follow Raju around everywhere to complete their movie. Eventually, when the movie is finished, it turns out that Raju's role in the film was embarrassing and humiliating, and turns Raju into a box office bomb. Shekhar's film succeeds and he is offered more movies. Raju turns into a flop, and decides to steal someone else's script.
God Tussi Great Ho (2008)
, 2h33Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about religion
Actors Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Amitabh Bachchan, Sohail Khan, Satish Kaushik, Anupam Kher
Roles Director of Photography
Rating37%
Arun Prajapati (Salman Khan) has been trying to be a successful TV anchor, but success has always eluded him. He blames God (Amitabh Bachchan) for this lack of success. Arun is head over heels in love with Alia Kapoor(Priyanka Chopra), who is a TV anchor and a well-known star working in the same channel, but he has never been able to express his love for her.
Mehbooba (2008)
, 2h42Directed by Afzal Khan
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgn, Reema Lagoo, Manisha Koirala, Kader Khan, Annu Kapoor
Roles Director of Photography
Rating38%
The story follows rich businessman Shravan Dhariwal (Sanjay Dutt). Shravan has everything one can dream of having and what he doesn’t have, he buys it. One day, he meets Varsha (Manisha Koirala) and believes her to be his true love. He proposes to her, and she eventually agrees. The couple get engaged, and go on a small holiday. However, Varsha’s beautiful dream comes to a shocking end when Shravan tells her that his love for her was just a drama to get engaged so he could sleep with her. Heart broken and shattered, Varsha’s whole world collapses around her. She leaves the country and goes as far away as possible from Shravan Dhariwal to start a new life. Shravan goes back home, and says things didn't go well with Varsha.
I See You (2006)
Directed by Vivek Agrawal
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Arjun Rampal, Vipasha Agarwal, Chunky Pandey, Sonali Kulkarni, Sophie Choudry, Boman Irani
Roles Director of Photography
Rating44%
Raj Jaiswal (Arjun Rampal) is the TV host of his own talk show, British Raj and a notorious womanizer. He promises every woman he flirts with to marry her, however, secretly, he has sworn to stay a bachelor forever. One day, he meets a mysterious woman, Shivani Dutt (Vipasha Agarwal) on his balcony who claims that his apartment is actually hers. Raj is instantly smitten with her. However, it turns out that he is the only one who can see her and touch her. To everyone else it seems as if he talks to himself and is slowly going mental. His friends tell Raj to let go, but Raj refuses, as he has fallen in love with the ghost woman. He finds out that Shivani is actually lying in a hospital in a coma, and her life support is about to be cut off. Raj decides to save her and brings her comatose body to his apartment to look after it. Shivani's doctor wants to kill her as she has witnessed an illegal operation where a kidney was removed and the doctor wants to save himself. Shivani finally admits that she has fallen in love with Raj, but Inspector Smith is on his trail and finally finds out what happened to Shivani's body - and also discovers the doctor's organ trafficking. Soon afterwards, Shivani awakens from her coma and doesn't remember Raj or the time she has spent with him as a ghost at all. Raj, disappointed, leaves her at the hospital and decides to get to know her anew: he finds her at a restaurant and introduces himself.
No Entry (2005)
, 2h41Directed by Anees Bazmee
Origin Inde
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu, Lara Dutta, Esha Deol
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65%
Kishen (Anil Kapoor) has a suspicious-minded wife, Kaajal (Lara Dutta), who thinks he is always having an affair with another woman, even though he is extremely faithful to her and wouldn't dream of betraying her in any way. Prem (Salman Khan) has the opposite situation. He is married to Pooja (Esha Deol), who seems to be very trusting, even though he has been having several affairs with numerous gorgeous women. There is also Kishen's friend Shekhar (Fardeen Khan), who accidentally falls in love with Sanjana (Celina Jaitley) and marries her. Then Bobby (Bipasha Basu), a call girl, enters the story. When Kishen takes pictures of Prem and his girlfriend, and threatens to send them to his wife, Prem hires Bobby to seduce Kishen. The plan is that Kishen will fall in love with her, and Prem wants to see if Kishen can hide the relationship. Then the lies start happening, as Kaajal thinks Bobby is Shekhar's wife, and Sanjana thinks Bobby is Kishen's wife. It becomes a bundle of confusion and comedy when all the various people and couples start meeting.
Waqt (2005)
, 2h28Directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah
Genres Drama
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra, Shefali Shah, Boman Irani, Rajpal Yadav
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66%
Ishwarchand Thakur (Amitabh Bachchan) and Sumitra Thakur (Shefali Shah) are a married couple who run a toy factory together. They have a son named Aditya Thakur (Akshay Kumar) who does not have any interest in responsibility or what he wants to do in life. It gets even worse when he elopes with his girlfriend, Pooja (Priyanka Chopra), the daughter of Natu (Boman Irani).
Chalte Chalte (2003)
, 2h47Directed by Aziz Mirza
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Satish Shah, Lillete Dubey, Meghna Malik, Johnny Lever
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64%
The film begins in a bowling alley, where a group of friends are awaiting the arrival of Salim. Meanwhile, Deepak arrives with his fiancée Sheetal. When a conversation about love arises, Deepak and the rest find it necessary to make Sheetal aware that true love does exist. They tell her the story of Raj (Shah Rukh Khan) and Priya (Rani Mukerji), two of their closest friends. Raj Mathur is the owner of Raj Transport, a small trucking company he founded himself. Raj is a carefree man who is unorganised, messy, lazy and late all the time. Although he isn't the richest, he's always happy.
Dil Ka Rishta (2003)
, 2h30Directed by Naresh Malhotra
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Arjun Rampal, Aishwarya Rai, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Isha Koppikar, Rakhee Gulzar, Paresh Rawal
Roles Director of Photography
Rating48%
Dil Ka Rishta is about a young man named Jai (Arjun Rampal). He is very wealthy and supports many charities. One day, he accompanies his friend Anita (Ishaa Koppikar) to a school for the deaf. There, he meets Tia (Aishwarya Rai), a teacher, and falls in love with her. He helps her wherever he can and tries to be near her—and he believes that Tia feels something for him, too. When he finally admits his Tia. Tia marries Raj and they have a son named Anshu. The trio live a poor
Pukar (2000)
Directed by Rajkumar Santoshi
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Romance
Actors Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Namrata Shirodkar, Danny Denzongpa, Om Puri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66%
Major Jaidev Rajvansh (Anil Kapoor) and his fellow officer manage to rescue a leading politician as well as capture his kidnapper, Abhrush (Danny Denzongpa). The terrorist has been wanted for years and he is finally captured by the two officers. Jai returns to a joyous welcome and is declared a national hero. He takes a break from the army and returns to his hometown. There he meets his childhood friend Anjali (Madhuri Dixit) who has always harboured love for Jai. Anjali wants to make most of Jai's holiday and tries to get close to him and spend time with him as much as she can.