N. Chandra (born 4 April 1952), born Chandrashekhar Narvekar, is an Indian producer, writer and director, known for his dark and loud films such as Ankush, Pratighaat, Tezaab and Narasimha, made as a film editor in the beginning of his career. Chandra also made the successful but critically scorned Style and its sequel Xcuse Me.
He was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra. With Ankush, his directorial debut, in 1986, Chandra began his projection of the angry young man . He wrote, directed, produced and edited the film, which starred Nana Patekar. Next year he followed it up with Pratighaat (1987), a film on the gruesome reality of politics in India as related to world politics; especially the Palestine/Israel Conflict and its effect on Afghanistan, Pakistan and Kashmir. It also brought the strong mental make-up of the Indian woman to the thoughts of the Indian youth. In 1988 he made Tezaab, the film that effectively launched Madhuri Dixit's career.[3] It was the beginning of the Bollywood diva's long and successful pairing with Anil Kapoor, and her mastery of dancing through the song Ek do Teen-Barah Therah.[3]
[edit]Filmography
Y.M.I : Yeh Mera India (2009): Director
Kagaar: Life on the Edge (2003): Director
Xcuse Me (2003): Director, producer
Style (2001): Director, writer, producer
Shikari (2000): Director
Wajood (1998): Director, writer, producer
Beqabu (1996): Director, writer, producer
Tejasvini (1994): Director
Yugandhar (1993): Director, writer
Humlaa (1992): Director, writer
Narasimha (1991): Director, writer, producer
Tezaab (1988): Director, writer, producer, editor
Pratighaat (1987): Director, writer, editor
Ankush (1986): Director, writer, producer, editor
He wrote Two Town Rowdy (1989), was the associate producer for Anbu Vazhi (1968), and edited Mera Dharam (1986), Mohabbat (1985), Dharam Aur Kanoon (1984), Woh Saat Din (1983) and Bezubaan (1981).
Release Date-164 min - Drama - 17 March 1987
Director: N. Chandra
Writers: N. Chandra (screenplay), Jalees (dialogue)
Dharampura is a city in modern secular India that is being terrorized and held at ransom by Kali Prasad, a dreaded underworld don, extortionist, who also runs his own courtroom, shielded and protected by the local M.L.A.. He does away with his opponents openly without any fear of being arrested. When Constable Karamveer arrests him, Kali gets himself released the very next day, abducts, rapes, then kills Karamveer's wife, beats him senseless, and eventually leaves him raving mad. When Durga's husband opposes him, he has him killed right in front of his wife and other city folk. When Inspector Ajay Srivastav arrests him and holds him in the lock-up, only to release him as the witness against Kali turns hostile, Ajay is hunted down and killed in broad daylight in the presence of thousands of witnesses. Only one witness comes forward to implicate Kali - her name is Laxmi Joshi, a school-teacher...
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