J. P. Dutta

Jyoti Prakash Dutta ( J.P. Dutta) is a Bollywood film producer and director. He was born on October 3, 1949, in Bombay. He is married to noted Bollywood actress Bindiya Goswami Bindiya Goswami is a former actress from the late >> Read More... whom film industry compares to Hema Malini Hema Malini is perhaps the only dream girl of the >> Read More... for her look and screen presence; she had acted in films like ‘ Shaan Shantanu Mukherjee is a very popular singer and kn >> Read More... ’, ‘Gol Maal’,’Takkar’ etc. They have two daughters Nidhi and Siddhi. 
J. P. Dutta  was born in a Punjabi Brahmin family  and is the son of filmmaker O.P.Dutta who penned story for films like ‘LOC Kargil’, ‘Border’ and even assisted in writing for additional dialogues for films like ‘Chirag’ ‘Do Raaste’, etc. J. P. Dutta came to limelight for directing patriotic films. 

In 1993, he directed a film ‘Kshatriya’ which was actress Divya Bharati’s last film. It was again a multi-star movie with Sunil Dutt Sunil Dutt was a great actor, director, producer, >> Read More... , Dharmendra, Sunny Deol Sunny Deol is a film actor, director and producer. >> Read More... , etc. In the year 1986, he made a film ‘Ghulami’ which was based on caste and feudal system that prevailed in Rajasthan. Dharmenendra, Om Puri Om Rajesh Puri is one of the widely noted senior a >> Read More... , Smita Patil This versatile actress was born on the 17th of Oct >> Read More... had acted in the movie. It is said that his debut film ‘ Sarhad Story soon >> Read More... ’ (1976) never got released till date.
Dutta was highly appreciated for directing films like ‘Border,' ‘Refugee’ and ‘LOC Kargil.'  Border was a film that was based on the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971. It showed many soldiers who died during the war and how the families of soldiers remained to sacrifice their sons for the motherland. It was an epic war film directed and produced by J.P. Dutta which fetched him National Award and Nargis Dutt Award for best film of the year. The film had melodious tunes of Anu Malik Anu Malik is considered as one of the most famous >> Read More... and was a multi-cast movie starring stars Sunny Deol, Sunil Shetty, Akshaye Khanna, Jackie Shroff, Tabu, Pooja Bhatt and Rakhee.Border was a box office hit and it earned even the appreciation of critics. 

In 2000 Dutta, he directed and produced another patriotic film ‘Refugee’ featuring  Kareena Kapoor and Abhishek Bachchan Abhishek Bachchan, or Abhishek Srivastava, is a ve >> Read More... . It was in this film that both Kareena and Abhishekh made their film debut. The film received a mixed response, and it sketched the illegal refugees’ life from both India and Pakistan when they cross the border through the Great Rann of Kutch. The film gained critics’ response and was the fifth highest grossing film of the year in Bollywood. The film received National awards for music director (Anu Malik) and lyricist( Javed Akhtar Javed Akhtar is an Indian poet, lyricist, film scr >> Read More... .
 In 2003, Dutta again took up direction for another patriotic film ‘LOC Kargil’ based on the war of 1999, across the Line of Control. The film depicted the Kargil War between India and Pakistan. It was again a multi-star cast film and gained mixed response in box-office but earned good appreciation from critics. 

J.P.Dutta came to limelight again for directing ‘ Umrao Jaan Click to look into! >> Read More... ’(2006)  featuring Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai with other prominent stars like Shabana Azmi Shabana Azmi is a film actress of Indian origin an >> Read More... and  Sunil Shetty. The film was a re-make of Rekha’s classic movie ‘Umrao Jaan’(1981) that fetched Rekha her national award. J.P. Dutta’s Umrao Jaan failed to gain public and critics attention.