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Manish Jha is an Indian film writer and director, known for the film Matrubhoomi.
Manish Jha is a Nepalese politician who belongs to the Rastriya Swatantra Party. He is currently serving as a member of the 2nd Federal Parliament of Nepal . In the 2022 Nepalese general election he was elected as a proportional representative from the Madheshi category.
Manish Jha is a filmmaker who has worked on movies such as Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women, A Very Very Silent Film and Anwar. He was born in Bihar, India in 1978 and has studied English at Delhi University.
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The story begins in a rural village in Bihar, with the delivery of a baby girl to a village couple. Her disappointed father, who was hoping for a boy, drowns her in a vat of milk in a public ceremony. Many years later somewhere around 2050 C.E., this unchecked trend leads to the village being populated mainly by males and a tiny number of older wom...
Vinamra Pancharia – RaghuDirector Manish Jha's debut short film, A Very Very Silent Film (2001), had previously won the Jury Prize for the Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002. He got the idea of Matrubhoomi upon reading, in a news magazine, about a village in Gujarat without women. Subsequently, while surfing the web, he read an article mentioning the fact ...
As per director, Manish Jha, "I wanted to examine the emotional and psychological impact of a society without women," ... "It is a very extreme situation ... a whole nation without women." The central character Kalki being married to five brothers is analogous to Queen Draupadi being married to the Pandava brothers in Mahabharata. Kalki references ...
After running through the festival circuit, including the 2003 Venice Film Festival, and 2003 Toronto International Film Festival, Matrubhoomi was commercially released two years later on 8 July 2005, with 150 prints. It was dubbed into six languages, including Tamil, Telugu, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Bengali, and French, on a budget of Rs. 3 crore, to r...
FIPRESCI Award in Parallel Section at the Venice Film Festival2003Audience Award for Best Film at the Kozlin Film Festival 2003, PolandAudience Award for Best Foreign Film at Thessaloniki Film Festival, 2003Nominated for Golden Alexander (Best Film) at Thessaloniki Film Festival, 2003Matrubhoomi at IMDbMatrubhoomi at AllMovieManish K. Jha is a Professor at the School of Social Work at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He has served as Dean, School of Social Work (2015-2018) and Chairperson, Centre for Community Organisation & Development Practice (2012-2015).
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Jan 26, 2005 · A 2003 Indian drama film directed by Manish Jha, based on a fictional scenario of female infanticide in rural India. The film follows the life of Kalki, one of the few surviving women, and her struggles in a patriarchal society.
Manish Jha (Jha) is an Indian director and actor born in West Champaran, Bihar (India). He is known for his work in movies like Matrubhoomi (2005), Anwar (2007) and Kaise Kahoon Ke...Pyaar Hai (2003).
