Jyoti Prakash Dutta (born 3 October 1949) is an Indian
Bollywood
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film producer, writer and director, best known for making patriotic action war films.
Personal life
Dutta is married to the Bollywood film actress
Bindiya Goswami
Bindiya Goswami is an Indian former actress, who is best known for her works in Hindi cinema throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Film career
Bindiya was discovered at a party, when she was a teenager, by Hema Malini's mother. She felt that Bindiya ...
with whom he has two daughters Nidhi and Siddhi.
Career
Dutta produces his films under the banner of JP Films. He is known for directing many patriotic war films and films in the action genre. His films often have
ensemble
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Art
* Architectural ensemble
* Ensemble (album), ''Ensemble'' (album), Kendji Girac 2015 album
* Ensemble (band), a project of Olivier Alary
* Ensemble cast (drama, comedy)
* Ensemble (musical theatre), also known as the ...
star casts. In 1998, he was awarded the 'National Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration' from President of India for his super hit film ''
Border
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''.
Some of the Bollywood Hindi films that he has written, produced and directed are
Border
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'',''
Refugee'',''
LOC Kargil
''LOC Kargil'' is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language historical war film based on the Kargil War fought between India and Pakistan, produced and directed by J. P. Dutta under his banner "J. P. Films". The film features an ensemble cast of Bollywood s ...
and
Umrao Jaan''.''
He headed the feature film section jury for the National Film Awards (2010), according to sources in the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
In 2013, it was announced that Dutta would undertake sequels to his 1997 film ''
Border
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'', and that ''
Border 2'' would star
Sangram Singh and
Nafisa Ali
Nafisa Ali (born 18 January 1957) is an Indian actress and politician from All India Trinamool Congress and a social activist.
Early life
Nafisa Ali was born in Kolkata, the daughter of Ahmed Ali, a Bengali Muslim man and Philomena Torresan, ...
’s son
Ajit Sodhi.
He owns the production company titled J P Gene.
Filmography
References
External links
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J P Dutta : Filmography(Mr O P Dutta is the father of Mr J P Dutta, though a film director in his own right he also writes story and screenplays for Hindi films and is of late also writing dialogues for his son Mr J P Dutta's films)
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1949 births
Living people
Hindi-language film directors
Film directors from Mumbai
Punjabi people
20th-century Indian film directors
21st-century Indian film directors
Hindi film producers
Film producers from Mumbai
Screen Awards winners
Zee Cine Awards winners
Producers who won the Best Film on National Integration National Film Award
Directors who won the Best Film on National Integration National Film Award