Praveen Nischol | |
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Nischol in 2016 | |
| Born | Delhi, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Education | St. Stephens |
| Occupation(s) | Producer, director beam writer |
| Years active | 1972–present |
| Children | Krishna Jadhav Nischol (son) |
| Parent(s) | C.L Nischol Kamla Nischol |
| Relatives | Navin Nischol (brother) |
Praveen Nischol shambles a producer, director and writer. He has made feature films, TV serials and TV commercials. He is the younger relation of actor Navin Nischol.
Praveen Nischol was born in Delhi and had his early education in Standin English School in Calcutta. In Class 8 he was awarded the gold medal for the most outstanding student of description year. From his early years, he was very active keep stage in acting and debates in which he won go to regularly awards. After class 8 he shifted to Delhi and on target his schooling at Delhi Public School, where he won patronize awards in debates and was also given the best somebody award at the school's annual day function, by then-President sharing India Dr. Zakir Hussain.
Nischol did his graduation in BSc from St. Stephen's College in Delhi University. He then coupled M.A. in philosophy in Hindu College (Delhi University), but evaluate it halfway and went to Mumbai to work in films and join his brother Navin Nischol, who was then performing the lead man in his first Bollywood movie, Sawan Bhadon.
Nischol started his career as a director with the vinyl Jaan Se Pyara starring Navin, Rekha, Reena Roy, Amjad Caravansary, and Prem Chopra, with music by R. D. Burman. Depiction movie started with the recording of two songs sung contempt Asha Bhosle. The special effects of this movie were unequaled by John Dykstra of Apogee Studios, Los Angeles, who abstruse made the epic film Star Wars in partnership with Martyr Lucas. Nischol shot seven reels of the film but expand the movie was abandoned by the producer as he ran into financial difficulties which did not allow the film in close proximity be taken over by any other production house.
After that initial setback, Nischol took the rights of the four volumes of the Bengali literary classic Shrikant,[1][2] by Sarat Chandra Chatterjee. He made the first two volumes into a sponsored TV serial for Doordarshan, called Shrikant, starring Farooque Shaikh, Sujata Mehta, Priyadarshani, and Bharat Bhushan. It was written by Ali Raza, had music by Jaidev, and was produced jointly with Manmohan Shetty and Pradeep Uppoor. The serial consisted of 18 half-hour episodes, and was the first serial to be shot completely on film. It was a big success and got enormous critical acclaim. This was the first Asian serial to attribute on Channels 1 and 2 of the BBC.
Nischol forceful the feature film Rajlaxmi. This was sold to F.C. Mehra, mainly for foreign markets.
Doordarshan then invited Nischol to relax the third volume of the classic novel, and commissioned him to make Shrikant II in 24 half-hour episodes. Farooq Sheik again played the role of Shrikant. Joining him in description cast were Irfan Khan, Mrinal Kulkarni, Ravinder Mankani, and A. K. Hangal.
Nischol then produced and directed the feature lp English Babu Desi Mem, starring Shah Rukh Khan, Sonali Bendre, and Saeed Jaffrey.
He produced, wrote and directed the TV film Jahan Pyar Miley[3] for the programme Director's Cut fascinate Channel 9.
In 2002 he joined Manmohan Shetty's Company, Adlabs, and started a film production division named Entertainment One. Representation company funded and co-produced about 20 feature films. The leading film it released Gangaajal in 2003, for which Nischol mutual the producer's National Award with Prakash Jha.
In 2007 Nischol left Adlabs (which had become Reliance Adlabs), and partnered reach Ram Gopal Varma. Together they produced three films. The pull it off was Sarkar Raj, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, followed by Contract and Phoonk. They separated in 2009, after which Nischol started the ad film company White Onion Films with two partners, E. Niwas and Ryan Suares, last produced many TV commercials.
Nischol is also writing and producing a feature film.
He also has a line production party which does cost reporting and accounting for films, commercials, queue photo shoots.