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Anand Patwardhan (b. 1950) is a documentary filmmaker from India. He completed a B.A. in English literature at Bombay University in 1970, a B.A. in Sociology at Brandeis University in 1970, and an M.A. in Communications at McGill University in 1982. He participated in the anti-Vietnam War movement from 1970–1972; as a volunteer in Caesar Chavez’ United Farm Workers Union in 1972; in Kishore Bharati, a rural development and education project in Central India in 1972–1974; and other movements for civil liberties and democratic rights. His War and Peace, made in 2001 was in the news when the CBFC (Central Board for Film Certification), India (more popularly known as censor board) refused to give a certificate to the film without making cuts and the then government did not allow Indian films without certificates to be entered in the government sponsored film festivals.

Works

#A Time to Rise (1981). Concerns Indian immigrant farm workers’ efforts to unionize in Canada. #Bombay Our City (1985). On slum dwellers. #In Memory of Friends (1990). On rebuilding communal harmony in Punjab. # (1992). On the rise of Hindu fundamentalism and Babri Mosque. #Pitr, Putr aur Dharmayuddha(Father, Son and Holy War) (1995). Concerns the patriarchal roots of violence in India. #A Narmada Diary (1996). Won the Grand Prize at the Earth Vision Film Festival in 1996. #Jang Aur Aman (U.S.: War and Peace) (2001). Traces the development of nuclear weapons by India and Pakistan. Won the Grand Prize at the Earth Vision Film Festival in 2002.

Category:1950 births Category:Living people Category:Indian documentary filmmakers Category:Indian film directors

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