Suresh Jindal

Suresh Jindal was born on 7th September 1942 in India. He completed BSEE from UCLA in Los Angeles, California. He worked in California as an aerospace/electronic engineer for four years. He then read about art-house cinema being produced in India, which got him interested in taking up a career as a film producer. He decided to approach Basu Chatterjee Basu Chatterjee is an Indian screenplay writer and >> Read More... for his first project as a film producer as he was impressed by Basu’s film Piya Ka Ghar’s reviews. He told the man that he had no idea about production but wanted to get into it and liked the script of the film Rajnigandha. Three producers had already ditched Basu, so he was cautious with Suresh, but they completed the project in 1974. The film went on to win the Filmfare award for Best Film in the consecutive year. It was Amol Palekar Amol Palekar was born on 24th November, 1944 in Mu >> Read More... and Vidya Sinha’s first film. He was bestowed with the honor to work with ace filmmaker Satyajit Ray Biographies reveal bare details about the maverick >> Read More... in his film ‘Shatranj Ke Khilari’ in 1977. He had arranged a meeting with Satyajit via his connection with Tinnu, an assistant to Ray. The film was his first Hindi movie, and Ray wanted a producer like Jindal, who had produced a successful Hindi film. This, coupled with the fact that he was an acquaintance of Tinnu, made Ray decide to go with a rookie producer.

He gave the vital suggestions of selecting Amjad Khan Amjad Zakaria Khan was born on 12th November, 1940 >> Read More... and Shabana Azmi Shabana Azmi is a film actress of Indian origin an >> Read More... for the movie. Richard Attenborough paused the editing of his film for one and a half weeks to do a role for their movie. Suresh then went on to work with him for his film ‘Gandhi’ in 1982. The movie won an Oscar award, eight Academy Awards, and British Academy Film Awards. His next film was ‘Katha’ in 1983 by Sai Paranjape. He has worked with actors like Naseeruddin Shah Naseeruddin Shah is an experimental actor and asso >> Read More... , Farooque, and Mallika Sarabhai Mallika Sarabhai is an activist, Indian classical >> Read More... in the film. He also produced TV movie documentaries, ‘Ganges Extreme’ in 1985 and both parts of ‘The Globe Trotter’ in 1987. He produced ‘ Buddha Buddha was a Hindi Mythological TV Series that air >> Read More... ’ in 1989, ‘I misteri della giungla nera’ in 1991, ‘Dance of the Wind’ in 1997, ‘Such a Long Journey’ in 1998, and ‘Vara: A Blessing’ in 2013.

He also produced ‘Naukar ki Kameez’ by Mani Kaul Mani Kaul undoubtedly was one of the greatest dire >> Read More... . Suresh is a member of the National Honorary Mathematics Society of America and previously a member of the Academic Council of Film and Television Institute of India. He was the former vice president of the Indian Motion Picture Producers Association. The French government bestowed him with the title ‘Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des lettres’. He has written a book called My adventure with Satyajit Ray.