Amrit Sagar is a director, producer and writer who works in the Hindi movie industry (Bollywood). He produced and directed his first feature film, ''

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...

'', in 2007, which won the

National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi The National Film Award for Best Hindi Feature Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kama ...

Personal life

He is the grandson of the filmmaker Ramanand Sagar and son of the producer Moti Sagar. He studied film-making at California College of Arts where he won the Wood Malcom award for writing.

Career

Sagar started his career by directing the hit TV show ''Hatim'' for Star Plus. He produced, directed and created ''Hotel Kingston'' and ''Shakuntala'' for Star One, ''Prithviraj Chauhan'' for Star Plus, ''Jai Shri Krishna'' for Colors, ''Meera'' for NDTV Imagine, ''Akbar Birbal'' for Big Magic, ''Dekh Video Dekh DVD'' for Colors TV and ''Dharam Vee'' forr NDTV Imagine He produced and directed the 2013 comedy ''Rabba Main Kya Karoon''. He produced his first

Marathi language Marathi (; , 𑘦𑘨𑘰𑘙𑘲, , ) is a Classical languages of India, classical Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra and is also spoken in Goa, and parts of Guj ...

movie, ''Mitwaa'', in 2015.

Filmography

*''

'' (2007) *''

Rabba Main Kya Karoon () is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by Amrit Sagar Chopra and produced by Moti Sagar. The film features Akash Sagar Chopra, Arshad Warsi, Paresh Rawal, Tahira Kochhar, and Riya Sen as main characters. Plot revolv ...

'' (2013) *''

Mitwaa ''Mitwaa'' or ''Mitwa'' () is a Marathi movie produced by Sagar Pictures. starring Swwapnil Joshi, Sonalee Kulkarni and Prarthana Behere. Swwapnil Joshi and Sonalee Kulkarni appear opposite each other for the first time. The movie was remade i ...

'' (2015) (Marathi)

Television

*''Hatim'' (Star Plus) *''Hotel Kingston'' (Star One) *''Prithviraj Chauhan'' (Star Plus) *''Jai Shri Krishna'' (Colors) *''Meera'' (NDTV Imagine) *''Shakuntala'' (Star One) *''Akbar Birbal'' (Big Magic) *''Dekh Video Dekh DVD'' (Colors TV) *''Dharam Veer'' (NDTV Imagine)

Recognition

* At

55th National Film Awards The 55th National Film Awards, presented by Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to felicitate the best of Indian Cinema released in the year 2007. Three different committee ...

he won the award for the Best Feature Film in Hindi for ''1971''. * He has won the Best TV show award four times at the

Indian Television Academy Awards The Indian Television Academy Awards, also known as the ITA Awards, is an annual award ceremony organised by the Indian Television Academy to honour excellence in Hindi-language television, films and web content. The Indian Television Academ ...

and the

Indian Telly Awards The Indian Telly Awards is an annual award for excellence both on-screen and behind-the-scenes of Hindi-language television. Conceptualised and created by Anil Wanvari, the founder, CEO of media and services group, indiantelevision.com, they a ...

References

Sources

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"55th NATIONAL FILM AWARDS FOR THE YEAR 2007"
Press Information Bureau (Govt. of India). Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 October 2009. Retrieved 8 September 2009. * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sagar, Amrit Living people Hindi film producers Hindi-language film directors Indian male screenwriters Year of birth missing (living people)