Ketan Mehta

Ketan Mehta

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  • Ketan Mehta
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Ketan Mehta Biography

Ketan Mehta is an Indian director who directs movies, television serials and documentaries. He has received two national awards till now, both for Best Feature Film on National Integration – In 1984 for Bhavni bhavai and in 1994 for Sardar. His movie Mirch Masala was nominated at 15th Moscow International Film Festival for golden prize and in 1993, ‘All in the Family’ won best documentary at Filmfare. He was the director of Maya Meimsaab, the movie that became viral over the net due to a lovemaking scene between Shah Rukh Khan and Deepa Sahi, which happened to be one of the earliest movies of SRK in 1992. The onscreen pair worked together once again in Oh Darling! Yeh Hai India. Mehta is married to Deepa Sahi. Deepa has also played the lead role of her husband’s movie, Aar ya paar, opposite Jackie Shroff. In 2010, Ketan was honored with Life Membership of International Film And Television Club of Asian Academy of Film & Television. 1984 movie Holi, in which Aamir Khan played lead role, was also directed by Ketan Mehta.

 

Mehta was born in 1952 in Gujarat. Ketan Mehta did his schooling from Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Delhi. Later he joined FTII, Pune to learn film making. His directorial venture Holi was shot in the college campus, which included a famous banyan tree, just a few days after it has fallen. He wisely used this banyan tree as a background artist in one of its song picturation. After completing course at FTII, Mehta joined the Indian Space Research Organisation as a television producer.

 

He has also directed two television serials - Captain Vyom and Mr. Yogi. Captain Vyom starred Milind Soman in leading role and was quite popular in Doordarshan during 1990’s. He has also made 7 documentary films. Throughout his career, Mehta directed 10 feature films including – Hero Hiralal, Holi, Mirch masala, Rang Rasiya, Mangal Pandey: The rising, Sardar, Oh Darling! Yeh Hai India, Bhavni bhavai, Maya memsaab and Aar ya paar.

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Updated: January 25, 2014

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