Title of film : Oh That's Bhanu
Director Name : R.V. Ramani
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Producer : R.V. Ramani
Editor : R.V. Ramani
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Synopsis : Bhanumati Rao (1923-2022) in her younger days, was a dancer and a theatre actor. An elegant and witty woman, who’s hearing and memory doesn’t usually stand up, has led an enigmatic, passionate, yet a simple and pragmatic life. Filming with Bhanumati, with her daughters Maya Krishna Rao, a contemporary solo theatre practitioner in New Delhi and Tara Rao, a human rights campaigner in Bengaluru, the filmmaker goes on a journey of life and performance, through the spasms of memory, complexities of relationships, love and a reflection of what could constitute a beautiful mind.
Director Bio : R.V. Ramani (b: 1957) is an award-winning filmmaker, cinematographer and a teacher, presently based in Chennai. A graduate in Physics, from Mumbai University, his passion for photography, made him choose photojournalism as a career working in Mumbai. He later graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, specializing in Motion Picture Photography, in 1985. His first short film, Saa (1991, 16mm, 30 mts), as Director/Cinematographer, was an experiment with form and content, exploring his own rhythm, in the flux of rural and urban rhythms. Today with many independent films to his credit, he is one of the leading documentary filmmakers in India, who has established a unique style of his own, making impressionistic subjective documentaries, as innovative experiences exploring various aspects of expression. Ramani has travelled widely, his films and retrospectives have been presented in various platforms. Ramani is also an acclaimed Cinematographer, collaborating on many films with other filmmakers. He has served in the Jury at many International Film festivals and National Film Awards. He regularly gets invited to conduct filmmaking workshops, Master classes or as an Academic consultant at many Institutions in India and has been a Visiting Professor at the Ambedkar University Delhi, for 5 years, from 2015 till 2020. Presently, Ramani is working on many feature documentaries.
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