Kalpana Lajmi

Kalpana Lajmi

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Kalpana Lajmi Biography

Kalpana Lajmi is a critically acclaimed film maker of Hindi cinema who is known for woman oriented movies like Daman and Rudali. Her association with Bhupen Hazarika is very famous and together they have worked for the movies – Rudali and Dharmiyan, for which he has composed music. For her women- centered movies, Daman and Rudali, the leading heroines, Raveena Tandon and Dimple Kapadia have won their single National awards for best actress category. She had been for a longtime manager with famous singer/composer Bhupen Hazarika. Kalpana is the niece of great film maker of yesterdays, Guru Dutt. She is the daughter of painter Lalita Lajmi. She is an independent filmmaker concentrated on realistic, low-budget films known as parallel cinema.

 

Kalpana debuted as an assistant director under the famous film director Shyam Benegal who is her distant relative. She has also worked as Assistant dress designer for Shyam Benegal's Bhumika: The Role. As a director, her first work was documentary film D.G. Movie Pioneer in 1978, followed by A Work Study in Tea Plucking (1979) and Along the Brahmaputra (1981). As a film director, Kalpana’s first movie was Ek pal released in the year 1986. It was for the first time she associated with Bhupen Hazarika in a film production though she was familiar to him during 70’s. The movie categorized under parallel cinema had Shabana Azmi and Naseeruddin Shah in the pivot roles and the screenplay was done by Gulzar. It began her long association with Gulzar too.

 

She gave a temporary break to movies and concentrated on to Doordarshan serials. Her first television serial was Lohit Kinare (1988) starring Tanvi Azmi in the leading role. Again she made a comeback to Bollywood with Rudali which happened to be the comeback of Dimple Kapadia too. The movie also accumulated many veteran actors of yesterdays like – Raj Babbar, Rakhee and Amjad Khan. Then she has given many critically well acclaimed movies like Chingari with Sushmita Sen, Daman with Raveena Tandon and Darmiyaan with Tabu and Kirron Kher.

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Updated: October 24, 2013

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