Saturday, September 10, 2011

Jagmohan Mundhra remembered at AAFT

“It was not long ago when Jagmohan Mundhra was there at AAFT Asian Academy Of Film And Television to promote his film Apartment with his star cast. Who knew it that he will never come back again” said Sandeep Marwah President of Marwah Studios remembering Jag Mundhra a renowned film maker at Noida Film City. Jagmohan Mundhra was an Indian filmmaker best known for his early career as an American exploitation film writer-director and his later career as maker of such issue-oriented movies as Bawandar and Provoked. After his first dramas, Suraag and the socially-relevant film, Kamla, Jag Mundhra directed, in the late 1980s and the 1990s, a string of horror and erotic thriller movies for theatrical distribution and direct to video, including The Jigsaw Murders (1988), Halloween Night (1988), Night Eyes (1990), L.A. Goddess (1993), Sexual Malice (1994) and Tales of the Kama Sutra 2: Monsoon (1998). The faculty and students of AAFT kept silence for two minutes as a mark of respect to the departed soul.