Indian filmmaker Jagmohan Mundhra has died at the age of 62.
The director passed away in Mumbai, India on Sunday after suffering a cardiac arrest, reports Variety.com.
He made his debut in 1982 with the Hindi-language thriller Suraag, while his 1984 movie Kamla was applauded by critics.
Mundhra later moved to the U.S. and directed English-language erotic thrillers, including Night Eyes and Wild Cactus. He was preparing Kissa Kutte Ka, the final instalment of his trilogy about on Indian women's issues, at the time of his death.
He is survived by his wife Chandra.
The director passed away in Mumbai, India on Sunday after suffering a cardiac arrest, reports Variety.com.
He made his debut in 1982 with the Hindi-language thriller Suraag, while his 1984 movie Kamla was applauded by critics.
Mundhra later moved to the U.S. and directed English-language erotic thrillers, including Night Eyes and Wild Cactus. He was preparing Kissa Kutte Ka, the final instalment of his trilogy about on Indian women's issues, at the time of his death.
He is survived by his wife Chandra.
- 9/5/2011
- WENN
Director Jagmohan Mundhra died at a hospital in Mumbai on Sunday morning. He was 62. According to family sources, Mundhra was suffering from internal bleeding and admitted to the hospital recently. Born on October 29, 1948 in Nagpur, Mundhra was best known for his women-centric and issue-oriented films like Nandita Das-starrer Bawandar and Aishwarya Rai-starrer Provoked. After Suraag, and Kamla, Mundhra in the late 1980s and the 1990s directed a string of horror and...
- 9/5/2011
- GlamSham
Indian filmmaker Jagmohan Mundhra, 62, passed away Sunday morning. He was known for issue-based films like Bawandar and Provoked.
He made his directorial debut in1982 with Sanjeev Kumar and Shabana Azmi starrer Suraag.
In the late 1980s and the 1990s, he directed thrillers like The Jigsaw Murders (1988), Halloween Night (1988), Night Eyes (1990), L.A. Goddess (1993), Sexual Malice (1994) and Tales of the Kama Sutra. He was based in Hollywood.
Mundhra was working on a film on the life of Sonia Gandhi.
He made his directorial debut in1982 with Sanjeev Kumar and Shabana Azmi starrer Suraag.
In the late 1980s and the 1990s, he directed thrillers like The Jigsaw Murders (1988), Halloween Night (1988), Night Eyes (1990), L.A. Goddess (1993), Sexual Malice (1994) and Tales of the Kama Sutra. He was based in Hollywood.
Mundhra was working on a film on the life of Sonia Gandhi.
- 9/4/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
April 26, 2010:On the eve of the release of his film Apartment, Jag Mundhra tells Jyothi Venkatesh at his office in Mumbai over cappuccino that he has every right to take away his name from the film as the director if the producer takes away his authority
Though you had made your debut almost three decades ago with Suraag, it is surprising that Apartment is only your fifth film in Hindi!
Apartment is my fifth in Hindi till date. Chase, my sixth film, is all set for release next week. I have earlier made films like Suraag, Kamla, Vishkanya, and Bawandar. Though my last releases in English in India before.
Though you had made your debut almost three decades ago with Suraag, it is surprising that Apartment is only your fifth film in Hindi!
Apartment is my fifth in Hindi till date. Chase, my sixth film, is all set for release next week. I have earlier made films like Suraag, Kamla, Vishkanya, and Bawandar. Though my last releases in English in India before.
- 4/26/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
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