About

Known credits:
16
Birthday:
1932-01-01
Place of birth:
Cuttack, Orissa, British India [now India]
Website:
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Pramod Pati

Overview

Pramod Pati was born in Odisha in 1932 and studied there and Bangalore and worked for a few years in the Odisha state government. He was awarded a scholarship to study in Czechoslovakia under the legendary puppet-maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director Jiri Trinka.Emboldened by this experience and a growing artist-driven milieu at the Film Division, he joined the Films Division and put his ideas into practice. While previous Films Division documentaries were narrative-driven and didactic, Pati infused his films with non-narratives storytelling techniques and a broad range of influences from both India and the West.The Films Division of India was started by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in the late 1940s. Nehru’s guiding vision in launching it was for it to document the new socialist and scientific India that his government was building. The style of these initial films was of the straight documentary with an obvious message. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Films Divisions’s output moved in a more experimental, artistic direction. At the forefront of this shift was Pramod Pati.

Known for

Acting
1962 Wives and Wives Actor Narrator (voice) N/A
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Directing
1972 Abid Directing Director 59
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1970 Trip Directing Director 59
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1970 Moments with the Maestro Directing Director N/A
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1968 Claxplosion Directing Director N/A
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1968 Explorer Directing Director 59
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1965 A Fable Retold Directing Director N/A
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1964 Our National Anthem Directing Director N/A
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1963 Mansube Machilidhar Directing Director N/A
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1962 Wives and Wives Directing Director N/A
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1960 This Our India Directing Director N/A
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Writing
1972 Abid Writing Idea 59
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1970 Trip Writing Idea 59
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Production
1972 Abid Production Producer 59
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1970 Trip Production Producer 59
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1968 Explorer Production Producer 59
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