Name Sanjit Narwekar | Role Filmmaker | |
Books Eena, meena, deeka, Dilip Kumar, V. Shantaram, the Legacy of the Royal Lotus, DILIP KUMAR THE LAST EMPEROR Awards National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema | ||
A Director's POV
Sanjit Narwekar (born May 8, 1952) is a documentary filmmaker and author. He completed his Bachelor’s in Statistics (1974) and his Master’s in Economics (1976) from the University of Mumbai.
Contents
- A Directors POV
- Early career
- Career
- Awards
- Films Documentaries
- Films Short Fiction
- Film Scripts
- Books Biography
- Books Film History
- References
Early career
He began writing in 1970 while he was still in college and has more than 2500 articles to his credit in the last 44 years. During his post graduation he worked at the National Institute of Bank Management but opted to work in journalism soon after he had completed his Masters. He worked in a wide variety of newspaper organizations and has been News Editor of Screen (1980-1991), Editor of TV & Video World (1994–95) and Executive Editor of Documentary Today (2007-2012).
Career
Narwekar has authored/edited 20 books on film history and published more than 100 books for various organizations. He has also hosted interviews/magazine programs for All India Radio and Doordarshan. He has participated in several national and international seminars and conducted workshops on various aspects of Indian cinema, both in India and abroad. He has also served on several selection committees and juries and has been a member of the Film Advisory Board of the Government of India (1992–93).
He worked briefly as scriptwriter before turning to documentary films. He is based in Mumbai, India and heads his content management company Transedit.
Awards
He was awarded the Swarna Kamal (National Award) for the Best Book on Cinema in 1996 for the book Marathi Cinema in Retrospect. The Delhi-based newspaper The Pioneer nominated it among the top five books on Indian cinema in post-independent India (1947–1997).