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Ketan Mehta is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Indian born on 1952 at Gujarat (Inde)

Ketan Mehta

Ketan Mehta
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Nationality Inde
Birth 1952 (72 years) at Gujarat (Inde)

Ketan Mehta (born 1952) is an Indian film director, who has also directed documentaries and television serials.

Biography

Formé à Delhi puis au Film and Television Institute of India de Puna, Ketan Mehta a réalisé des fictions, des documentaires et des séries télévisées de type masala, alliant comédie, satire, romance, violence et rébellion. Il est marié à l'actrice Deepa Sahi.

Son premier film Bhavni Bhavai fut un succès immédiat. Beaucoup de ses films ont été présentés dans les compétitions internationales.

Il a récemment mis en scène Mangal Pandey: The Rising avec Aamir Khan.

Usually with

Deepa Sahi
Deepa Sahi
(10 films)
Paresh Rawal
Paresh Rawal
(6 films)
Hriday Lani
Hriday Lani
(6 films)
Om Puri
Om Puri
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ketan Mehta (16 films)

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Actor

Celluloid Man, 2h30
Directed by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
Genres Biography, Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Krzysztof Zanussi, Lester James Peries, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Gulzar, Naseeruddin Shah
Rating75% 3.791533.791533.791533.791533.79153
P. K. Nair’s fascination with cinema began as a child and he watched his first few films lying on the white sand floor of a cinema in Trivandrum. He was a collector even then - collecting ticket stubs, lobby cards, even weighing machine tickets sporting pictures of the stars of the day. He grew up to be a great collector of films.
Outsourced
Outsourced (2006)
, 1h43
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker, Asif Basra, Arjun Mathur, Matthew Smith, Larry Pine
Roles Sanjeev
Rating69% 3.495943.495943.495943.495943.49594
Todd Anderson (Josh Hamilton) has to travel to India when his department is outsourced. Todd is not happy but when his boss Dave informs him that quitting would mean losing his stock options, he goes to train his Indian replacement Puro (Asif Basra).

Director

Manjhi - The Mountain Man
Directed by Ketan Mehta
Genres Drama
Themes Films about slavery
Actors Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Pankaj Tripathi, Urmila Mahanta, Deepa Sahi
Rating79% 3.998163.998163.998163.998163.99816
In the 1960s Dashrath Manjhi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) lived in a small village Gehlaur near Gaya, Bihar, India with his family including his wife Phaguniya Devi (Radhika Apte). There was a rocky mountain near his village that people either had to climb across or travel round to gain access to medical care at the nearest town Wazirganj. One day Manjhi's wife fell while trying to cross the mountain, after which Manjhi decided to carve a road through it. When he started hammering the hill people called him a lunatic but that only steeled his resolve further. After 22 years of back-breaking labour, Manjhi carved a path 360 feet long, 25 feet deep in places and 30 feet wide.
Mangal Pandey: The Rising, 2h30
Directed by Ketan Mehta
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Musical films, Political films, Films about Islam, Bollywood
Actors Aamir Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Toby Stephens, Ameesha Patel, Kiron Kher, Om Puri
Rating64% 3.2489053.2489053.2489053.2489053.248905
The film begins in 1857, when a large part of India was under the control of the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey (Aamir Khan) is a sepoy, a soldier of Indian origin, in the army of the East India Company. Pandey is fighting in the Anglo-Afghan Wars and saves the life of his British commanding officer, William Gordon (portrayed by Toby Stephens). Gordon is indebted to Pandey and a strong friendship develops between them, transcending both rank and race.
Oh Darling! Yeh Hai India!, 2h45
Directed by Ketan Mehta
Origin Inde
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Deepa Sahi, Javed Jaffrey, Anupam Kher, Amrish Puri, Prashant Narayanan
Rating40% 2.009552.009552.009552.009552.00955
Don Quixote (Amrish Puri) is a don who plans on selling India in a widely publicized auction. His plan is simple — kidnap the president (Anupam Kher), replace him with a lookalike (also Anupam Kher), throw a scare and "force" the fake president to sell India. Hero (Shahrukh Khan) is new to Mumbai and broke. Miss India (Deepa Sahi) is busy living it up the night she meets Hero. They meet and decide to spend the night entertaining each other in any way possible — joking, dancing or doing anything they can think of.
Maya Memsaab, 2h51
Directed by Ketan Mehta
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Erotic films, Musical films, Madame Bovary, Bollywood
Actors Deepa Sahi, Farooq Sheikh, Raj Babbar, Shahrukh Khan, Paresh Rawal, Raghubir Yadav
Rating54% 2.703282.703282.703282.703282.70328
Young, beautiful and intelligent Maya (Deepa Sahi) lives with her father in a palatial mansion in rural India. When her father suffers stroke, she calls for local Dr.Charu Das, who arrives on his bicycle and prescribes treatment for her father. He comes pretty often, more on the pretext of seeing her than her father. Eventually they get married. Years pass by and Charu is busy engrossed in treating patients, leaving Maya alone to ponder her own fate and life. And it is not long before a young man named Rudra enters her life and an affair follows. This does not last long, as a much younger man Lalit (Shah Rukh Khan) now enters her life and they begin a passionate affair. But again, Maya is not satisfied as she longs for more than bodily needs and it is perhaps this that leads to her sudden death, leaving two investigators to probe who or what really killed Maya.
Karthavyam
Karthavyam (1991)

Directed by Ketan Mehta
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Nirmalamma, Charan Raj, Vinod Kumar, Uday Prakash, Saakshi Ranga Rao, Sai Kumar
Rating69% 3.4597553.4597553.4597553.4597553.459755
Bhaskar (Sriram) visiting his village for his friend Archana's (Gopika) wedding. But he ends up in returning to city with Gopika herself for she comes to know of the bridegroom's bad past in the village just before the marriage.
Hero Hiralal
Directed by Ketan Mehta
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Musical
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Sanjana Kapoor, Saeed Jaffrey, Deepa Sahi, Johnny Lever, Kiran Kumar
Rating60% 3.048343.048343.048343.048343.04834
Naseeruddin Shah is Hero Hiralal, a Hyderabadi Auto-driver, who meets an upcoming Bollywood starlet, Roopa (Sanjana Kapoor) and becomes her tour guide. Soon, the two fall in love.
Mirch Masala, 2h8
Directed by Ketan Mehta
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Om Puri, Suresh Oberoi, Raj Babbar, Deepti Naval
Rating76% 3.8422353.8422353.8422353.8422353.842235
The film is set in Colonial India in the early 1940s. The plot begins with an arrogant subedar (Naseeruddin Shah) (local tax collector in colonial India) and his henchmen rampaging through a village. The subedar has an eye for women and soon spots Sonbai (Smita Patil) on the riverbank. Sonbai is an intelligent, beautiful and strong woman. Her confidence intrigues the subedar.
Holi
Holi (1984)
, 2h
Directed by Ketan Mehta
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Aamir Khan, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Deepti Naval, Ashutosh Gowariker, Dr. Shriram Lagoo
Rating70% 3.5379353.5379353.5379353.5379353.537935
In a typical college in a typical Indian city, the hostel boys Madan Sharma (Aamir Khan) and his friends including Ranjeet Prakash (Ashutosh Gowariker) are a rowdy and troublesome lot. But on one day, when Madan and his friends find out there will not be a holiday for them on the day of Holi, the festival of colors, the boys decide not to attend classes.
Bhavni Bhavai, 2h15
Directed by Ketan Mehta
Genres Drama
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Mohan Gokhale, Om Puri, Dina Pathak, Suhasini Mulay
Rating69% 3.489033.489033.489033.489033.48903
The film begins with a group of Harijans migrating to a city pausing for a night. An elderly (Om Puri) starts narrating the story of King Chakrasen.

Scriptwriter

Manjhi - The Mountain Man
Directed by Ketan Mehta
Genres Drama
Themes Films about slavery
Actors Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Pankaj Tripathi, Urmila Mahanta, Deepa Sahi
Roles Story
Rating79% 3.998163.998163.998163.998163.99816
In the 1960s Dashrath Manjhi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) lived in a small village Gehlaur near Gaya, Bihar, India with his family including his wife Phaguniya Devi (Radhika Apte). There was a rocky mountain near his village that people either had to climb across or travel round to gain access to medical care at the nearest town Wazirganj. One day Manjhi's wife fell while trying to cross the mountain, after which Manjhi decided to carve a road through it. When he started hammering the hill people called him a lunatic but that only steeled his resolve further. After 22 years of back-breaking labour, Manjhi carved a path 360 feet long, 25 feet deep in places and 30 feet wide.