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Alternative names Madhur Bhandrakar. August 26 , Bombay, Maharashtra, India. Renu Namboodiri December 15, - present 1 child. Did you know Edit. Trademark Frequent portrayal of strong female protagonists who, despite facing lots of difficulties in life, turn out to be very successful and fearless women in their lives. Related news. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Learn more about contributing. Edit page.

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More to explore. Zenith Asia Award for significantly shaping the film making culture in his unique works and he has been described as 'the Film Maker of the First Decade of the 21st Century'. PL Deshpande was a renowned writer, stage and film actor and his literary works are still revered in Maharashtra and others parts of the world. In his honour, Zenith Asia Award was given to Madhur Bhandarkar and his film Chandni Bar was also screened during the fest amongst landmark 25 films from world cinema. He has also depicted gay characters very well in his movies like Page 3,Traffic Signal and Fashion. He is a school drop-out. He came from a middle-class family. As a result, Madhur had to take up various jobs. He worked at a video store as an errand boy and dropped off cassettes to people from many walks of life including dance bar girls and film stars.

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He is a great devotee of the Hindu God Siddhivinayak and has been walking from his house in Khar, Mumbai to the temple for the past 18 years on every Tuesday. According to him, the film Corporate was his most difficult film as people in corporate world would shun him after he bared Page 3 culture in his earlier film. He took inspiration for Corporate from the Coke — Pepsi controversy. He has been invited to deliver lectures on corporate issues to management students after the release of Corporate. Initially, in , Preeti Jain, a model and actress, accused Madhur Bhandarkar of rape and lodged a complaint with the Versova Police where she alleged that the filmmaker had raped her 16 times between and with the promise of casting her in his films. She also alleged that he promised to marry her and produced SMS texts, where he had reportedly asked for sexual favours, as evidence. Bhandarkar claimed that the complaint was cheating-related, not about rape.

In , a Mumbai court found substance in her complaint and asked Bhandarkar to face the trial. He challenged the lower court's order before the higher court, which too rejected his plea. In , the police filed a report where it stated that the claim against the filmmaker was 'maliciously false'. The court rejected this report and held there was prima facie a case against Bhandarkar. The Bombay High Court confirmed the magisterial court's decision to continue with Bhandarkar's prosecution. In , the Bombay high court asked the filmmaker to face the trial in the case. He challenged the court's order in Supreme Court. A Supreme Court bench quashed a rape case that had been filed against Bollywood director Madhur Bhandarkar on November 5, However, prior to this, in , in a bizarre turn of events, Preeti was arrested for hiring a contract killer to murder Bhandarkar. Reports suggest that the model demanded her money back because the execution failed to take place.

When Gawli was made aware of this, he instructed his lawyer to file a complaint against her at the Agripada police station. The rape case was cited as one of the reasons why she wanted the filmmaker dead. After a week long probe, the police arrested her while she was on her way to the Versova Police station. The initial trial began at a fast-track court in Sewri, which shut down, and consequently, the case was transferred to the sessions court. She was awarded a three-year imprisonment and found guilty of conspiracy, aiding and abetting crime. In most of his films, Bhandarkar's protagonist are females. The exception here being Neil Nitin Mukesh , who was cast as the protagonist in the movie Jail. He has also depicted gay characters in his movies like Page 3 , Traffic Signal and Fashion. In an interview, he said: "My movies are not exposes, maybe they just hold up a mirror to society. My movies are not judgmental; I just show what happens in our society, sometimes there could be a solution and sometimes there may be none.

Life goes on. Madhur is known for his hard-hitting and realistic films. This latest movie starring Tamanna Bhatia in bubbly bouncer on Disney plus hotstar and India lockdown has garnered him a lot of appreciation by the streaming audience. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons. Indian film writer director producer. This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. Renu Namboodiri. The Indian Express. Retrieved 25 January Outlook India. Retrieved 8 April The Times of India. Archived from the original on 3 January Retrieved 5 November India Today. Business Of Cinema.

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