Dakxinkumar Bajrange

Dakxinkumar Bajrange

Still: Sameer
Dakxinkumar BAJRANGE (India) is a filmmaker, playwright, activist and artistic director at Budhan Theatre. He has directed dozens of plays, fiction films, documentaries and TV series. Bajrange also works on podcasts, and has written a book, Budhan Bolta Hai. Sameer (2017), selected for IFFR 2023, screened at various festivals including New York Indian Film Festival and the Indian International Film Festival of Queensland, where he won Best Director.

Filmography

(selection) Ek moti eklavyu (2000, TV series, co-dir), Fight for Survival (2005, short doc), Thought for Development (2006, short doc), Bulldozer (2006, short doc), The Lost Water (2007, short doc), It Is the Music (2008, music video), Bhavai nu pedhinamu – Documentary on Tribal Folk Theatre (2008, short doc), Actors Are Born Here (2008, short doc), Reservoir Management (2009, short doc), Masoti (2009, short doc), Kaleshwari – Fare of Denotified Tribes (2009, short doc), Chhara Tribe (2009, short doc), Dashmool (2009, short doc), Silent Thunder (2010, short doc), Where to Perform Namaj? (2010, short doc), Global Sites, Local Lives (2010, short doc), Partnering for Change (2011, short doc), Setu/Bridge (2012, short doc), Khushbu's Varshitap – A Way to Love the God (2012, short doc), Birth 1871, History, Memory and Stigma – India’s De-notified over the Independence (2013, short doc), Sundarana-Marriage, Memory and Social Change Among Patidar Community of Gujarat (2013, short doc), Sameer (2017), Dharamaj Day (2018, short doc), Toiletwale (2018, short doc), Broken Gods (2018, short doc), Bullet (2019, doc), The Last Man (2020, mid-length doc), Blame Game (2020, doc)

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