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Apurba Kishore Bir is a Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography and Cinematography Indian born on 1948 at Odisha (Inde)
Apurba Kishore Bir also referred as A. K. Bir (1948) is a noted Indian film cinematographer, and director known for films such as 27 Down, Baaja the latter he also directed. He is presently working as a director of National Film Development Corporation of India.
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Baaja (2002)
, 1h20Directed by Apurba Kishore Bir
Themes Children's films
A free and compassionate human spirit is trapped in Shibu, an eleven-year-old boy. In order to guide Shibu's wandering energy on a constructive path, his widow mother sends him to the city from the village, with his uncle. But Shibu's carefree approach to life and his energetic response to reality, makes him a subject of annoyance to the neighbour as well as his own aunt. This forces his uncle to be strict with him and he takes him along to his shoe shop, in order to keep a watch on him, studying. But the situation leads Shibu on a different track. Being asked by the Uncle to carry a pair of shoes to a doctor's residence, Shibu ventures across the streets and lanes in his casual and carefree manner while encountering some stray incidents. But, then something very sudden and unpredictable happens, which invites him to show his true potential and real merit, to surprise the adults, effected by indifferent attitude.
Shesha Drushti (1997)
, 2h5Directed by Apurba Kishore Bir
Genres Drama
Actors Sarat Pujari
Rating69%
Kedar Babu is a freedom fighter since the days of Gandhiji's call for the Civil Disobedience Movement. Keadr Babu has lost his wife at an early stage of his marriage. Since then, he has brought up his only son Sangram with all paternal affection. In the town, Sangram stays in the house of a Zamindar Bahudur Surriyakant Singh. During his stay in the Zamindar's house, Sangram experiences the gradual moral setback of a feudal system and the irresponsible and unethical practices in the library. This puts him in a state of dilemma and delusion. In the last moment encounter with his father, Sangram experiences a new perception to life, illuminated with anxiety, suspicion, shock, tragedy, dilemma, wilderness, and the thrill of fulfilling the last wish of his father by enacting the childhood spirit of attaining freedom and subsequently a new vision.
Aranyaka (1994)
, 1h24Directed by Apurba Kishore Bir
Genres Drama
Actors Sanjana Kapoor, Mohan Gokhale, Navni Parihar, Sarat Pujari
Rating64%
Aadi Mimansa (1991)
Directed by Apurba Kishore Bir
Actors Ashok Kumar, Neena Gupta, Ashok Kumar, Mohan Gokhale, Nargis
Rating64%
Scriptwriter
Baaja (2002)
, 1h20Directed by Apurba Kishore Bir
Themes Children's films
A free and compassionate human spirit is trapped in Shibu, an eleven-year-old boy. In order to guide Shibu's wandering energy on a constructive path, his widow mother sends him to the city from the village, with his uncle. But Shibu's carefree approach to life and his energetic response to reality, makes him a subject of annoyance to the neighbour as well as his own aunt. This forces his uncle to be strict with him and he takes him along to his shoe shop, in order to keep a watch on him, studying. But the situation leads Shibu on a different track. Being asked by the Uncle to carry a pair of shoes to a doctor's residence, Shibu ventures across the streets and lanes in his casual and carefree manner while encountering some stray incidents. But, then something very sudden and unpredictable happens, which invites him to show his true potential and real merit, to surprise the adults, effected by indifferent attitude.
Shesha Drushti (1997)
, 2h5Directed by Apurba Kishore Bir
Genres Drama
Actors Sarat Pujari
Rating69%
Kedar Babu is a freedom fighter since the days of Gandhiji's call for the Civil Disobedience Movement. Keadr Babu has lost his wife at an early stage of his marriage. Since then, he has brought up his only son Sangram with all paternal affection. In the town, Sangram stays in the house of a Zamindar Bahudur Surriyakant Singh. During his stay in the Zamindar's house, Sangram experiences the gradual moral setback of a feudal system and the irresponsible and unethical practices in the library. This puts him in a state of dilemma and delusion. In the last moment encounter with his father, Sangram experiences a new perception to life, illuminated with anxiety, suspicion, shock, tragedy, dilemma, wilderness, and the thrill of fulfilling the last wish of his father by enacting the childhood spirit of attaining freedom and subsequently a new vision.
Aranyaka (1994)
, 1h24Directed by Apurba Kishore Bir
Genres Drama
Actors Sanjana Kapoor, Mohan Gokhale, Navni Parihar, Sarat Pujari
Rating64%
Aadi Mimansa (1991)
Directed by Apurba Kishore Bir
Actors Ashok Kumar, Neena Gupta, Ashok Kumar, Mohan Gokhale, Nargis
Rating64%
Aadat Se Majboor (1982)
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Mithun Chakraborty, Talluri Rameshwari, Neena Gupta, Mohan Gokhale, Mohan Choti, Madan Puri
Roles Writer
Rating59%
Cameraman
Nanak Shah Fakir (2014)
Genres Drama
Actors Arif Zakaria, Adil Hussain, Tom Alter
Roles Director of Photography
Rating81%
Shikhar (2005)
, 2h36Genres Drama
Actors Shahid Kapoor, Ajay Devgn, Bipasha Basu, Amrita Rao, Javed Sheikh, Sushant Singh
Roles Director of Photography
Rating51%
The story is about Gaurav Gupta (Ajay Devgn), a successful businessman, who started with nothing and believes that only money can fuel his ambitions. When he interests himself on building a tower in an abandoned village, he makes his mind up and agrees to build it at any cost. However, the owner of the land, Shrikant Vardhan (Javed Sheikh) does not accept the tower to be built. Therefore, Gaurav tricks Shrikant's son Jaidev (Shahid Kapoor), who is infected by the get-rich-quick virus, to join his scheme.
Daasi (1988)
, 1h34Directed by B. Narsing Rao
Themes Films about slavery
Actors Archana
Roles Director of Photography
Rating77%
Shaque (1976)
Actors Vinod Khanna, Shabana Azmi, Utpal Dutt, Bindu, Durga Khote, Farida Jalal
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68%
27 Down (1974)
, 1h58Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Rakhee Gulzar, M.K. Raina, Om Shivpuri
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72%
The film is set on 27 Down, the Bombay-Varanasi Express, Sanjay (M.K. Raina) is on a pilgrimage journey to Varanasi (Banaras), and remembers his life in flashbacks. Sanjay gives up his dreams to become an artist, in order to support his family he takes up his father's profession of railways employee. He spends his days as railways ticket checker, till he meets a Life Insurance Corporation employee, Shalini (Raakhee), on the suburban train. After a few more meetings, they falls in love, and Sanjay starts seeing life differently, but when his father finds about their relationship, he fixes his marriage with some other girl.
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Diksha (1991)
, 2hGenres Drama
Actors Manohar Singh, Nana Patekar, K. K. Raina
Roles Cinematography
Rating74%
Placed in the early 1930s, Diksha is the story of a guru and his widowed daughter, the head disciple and the novice; the lowly-born 'Koga' who dreams of learning the intricacy of scriptures.