Brahmanand S. Siingh

Brahmanand S. Siingh or Brahmanand Singh (born 3 May 1965) is a national-award winning filmmaker, a vastly published author and a life coach based out of Mumbai, India. He is best known for his films like Kaagaz Ki Kashti, a biopic on Jagjit Singh[1] and his feature-length documentary on R. D. Burman, Pancham Unmixed: Mujhe Chalte Jaana Hai.[2] He has also won the REX-Karmaveer-Chakra Awards, in partnership with the United Nations, for transforming lives through social impact projects and ideas of hope. Siingh's latest feature project, Jhalki [3] is a feature film that attempts to create public awareness of the global problem of child trafficking and child labor at a large scale through an engaging drama.

Brahmanand S. Siingh
Born (1965-05-03) 3 May 1965
Purnia, Bihar, India.
NationalityIndian
OccupationFilmmaker, Author and Life Coach
Notable work
Pancham Unmixed, Kaagaz Ki Kashti, Jhalki
AwardsNational Film Award for Best Biographical Film

National Film Award for Best Historical Reconstruction/Compilation Film

REX Karmaveer Chakra Award
WebsiteMobius Films Brahmanand Siingh

He[4] takes people through his discoveries and insights from his craft and worldview, into a range of unique experiential and rewarding self-discoveries for the viewers. Through his films, his speeches and workshops, consciously and strategically, lowers the normally revved up mind speed, he opens lives and makes them see all those delightful details, feel the depths of their experiences, and sense the exciting unseen things of the daily life and work in a special way.

Early life and education

Brahmanand S Siingh grew up in Purnia, Bihar. Later he moved to St Xavier's College Ranchi and eventually to Kolkata University for his English Literature Masters. His journeys into cinema, however started within a year of his moving to Mumbai[5] in 1993.

Career

As a writer / author

In the late 80s, starting off while still in college, Brahmanand wrote extensively on Cinema, Literature, Art, Music and other human stories of interest and excitement to him for practically all the prominent newspapers and magazines of its time for the next 15 years: Telegraph, Statesman, Times of India, Hindu, Indian Express, The Independent, Pioneer, Mid-Day, Afternoon Dispatch & Courier, India Today, Gentleman, Debonair, Frontline and many others and contributed chapters to international Books, alongside anthologies and collection of poems in India and abroad. Further, he extended himself to countless prominent digital platforms during the dotcom boom of the early millennium.

Brahmanand has over 3000 published articles and features, essays, poems and short stories in print and on web, spread over one and half decades of active writing phase. He has also authored three beautiful biographical books, Strings Of Eternity, Diamonds & Rust and Lightness Of Being.

As a speaker / life coach

Brahmanand S Siingh is also one of the most sought-after speakers[6] in the field of inspirational and resonant leadership and helps many through skills as a life coach and advisor/counselor.

As a filmmaker

Late nineties onwards, filmmaking started gaining precedence over writing and since then he has made many biographical documentaries, independent and smaller films. Brahmanand S Siingh, a National-Award winning filmmaker, has been vastly recognized for his experiential and inspirational biopics on iconic legends like RD Burman[7] and Jagjit Singh (Pancham Unmixed & Kaagaz Ki Kashti), movies that have acquired a cult status, in addition to social and emotional cause based films like Jhalki, a story of hope, courage, compassion and self-belief against the backdrop of a story of lost childhood & human trafficking. Many other films like Riding on a Sunbeam, Through our Eyes, Ashgari Bai, Ragpickers, Uncaging the Body and A Burden of Love continue to be popular and loved. He has been invited to be on the jury, in the film and script selection committee of various International film festivals and award platforms. He also conducts filmmaking and scriptwriting workshops in film festivals and institutes.

In-the-pipeline projects like Surmayee Shaam on father-son bonding against an Alzheimer's backdrop, Rumi’s Secret with Rumi as a backdrop, The Dream Teller, with an occult world backdrop of spiritual communication and practical life; Kindness Series, Legacy Series and well-told Biopics Series of iconic figures along with many other films.

Filmography

As a director and/or producer.

Year Title
1997 Ashgari Bai
1998 A burden of Love
1999 Back to Nature
2002 Uncaging the Body[8]
2005 Ragpickers[9]
2008 Pancham Unmixed[10]
2011 Chidiya Rain Basera
2012 Ambassador of Peace
2015 Knowing Pancham[11]
2015 Through Our Eyes[12]
2016 Riding on a Sunbeam[13]
2017 Kaagaz Ki Kashti[14]
2019 Jhalki

Awards
Year Award Category For
2003 Apsara Film Producers Guild Awards Best Short Film Uncaging the Body
2008 IFFLA Critics Special Mention Pancham Unmixed
2008 Washington DC Film Festival Audience Choice Award Pancham Unmixed
2009 57th National Film Awards Best Compilation Film (Director) Pancham Unmixed
2009 57th National Film Awards Best Compilation Film (Producer) Pancham Unmixed
2010 AIFF Best Documentary Pancham Unmixed
2016 Vancouver International South Asian Film Festival[15] Audience Choice Award Kaagaz Ki Kashti
2016 Vancouver International South Asian Film Festival[15] Best Documentary Award Kaagaz Ki Kashti
2019 International Screen Awards (ISA 2019)[16] Platinum Award for International Feature Film Jhalki
2019 Washington DC South Asian Film Festival (DCSAFF 2019) Best Director Award Jhalki
2019 Indian Film Festival of Cincinnati (IFFCINCY 2019)[17] Best Feature Film Award Jhalki
2019 Indian International Film Festival Of Boston (IIFFB 2019) [18] Best Social Cause Film Award Jhalki
2019 International Independent Film Awards Los Angeles (IIFA 2019) [19] Best Concept Platinum Winners Jhalki
2019 International Independent Film Awards Los Angeles (IIFA 2019) [19] Best Screenplay Platinum Winners Jhalki
2019 Boston International Film Festival (BIFF 2019) [20] Best Original Screenplay Award Jhalki
2019 REX-Karmaveer-Chakra[21] Karmaveer Chakra Award N/A

References
  1. "In memory of Jagjit Singh". The Hindu. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  2. "Knowing Pancham: A Beautiful Docu On The Life Of R.D. Burman!". The Hindu.
  3. "Jhalki a film by Brahmanand S Siingh". Advantus. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  4. sengupta, Rituparna (1 February 2020). "An Exclusive Interview with Brahmanand S Siingh". Expresso Magazine. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  5. "AUDIENCE ARE HUNGRY FOR QUALITY CONTENT WELL-TOLD -BRAHMANAND SINGH". Bargad. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
  6. https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/featurephilia/story/resonant-and-effective-communication-1649716-2020-02-25. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. "RD Burman, a lesson in time management". mid-day. 2 February 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  8. "Uncaging the Body – Documentary Films – Mobius Films". mobiusfilms.net. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  9. "Ragpickers – Documentary Films – Mobius Films". mobiusfilms.net. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  10. Ramnath, Nandini. "'Pancham Unmixed' documentary gets rebooted with extended interviews about composer RD Burman". scroll.in. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  11. "Knowing Pancham: A Beautiful Docu On The Life Of R.D. Burman! – Jamuura Blog". jamuura.com. 8 July 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  12. mobiusfilms (24 August 2016). "Through Our Eyes". wordpress.com. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  13. "TiE Spotlight : Riding on a Sunbeam – With Brahmanand Siingh at Bangalore – Events High". eventshigh.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  14. Ramnath, Nandini. "Documentary on ghazal superstar Jagjit Singh lines up the tributes and the tears". scroll.in. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  15. "https://visaff.ca/". Retrieved 23 March 2020. External link in |title= (help)
  16. "Winners International Screen Awards". internationalscreenawards.com. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  17. "Schedule 2019". indiasistercity. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  18. "Closing Night - IIFFB 2019". India International Film Festival of Boston. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  19. "Platinum Award". iifilmawards.com. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  20. "JHALKI: Tale Of A Tireless Sparrow". Boston International Film Festival | BostoninterFF. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  21. India (12 November 2019). "REX Karmaveer Global Young Leaders Fellowship and Karmaveer Chakra Awards". India. Retrieved 23 March 2020.


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