| Facts | - Began career as a copywriter at Lintas advertising agency, Mumbai
- Directed over 900 sponsored documentaries and advertising films
- Taught at Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) and worked as its chairman twice
- Honors: Padma Shri (1976), Padma Bhushan (1991), Dadasaheb Phalke Award (2005)
- Made several television serials and returned to big screen with Antarnaad (1991)
- Directed 21 feature films, 1,500 advertising films, and 45 documentaries
- Member of the jury in Moscow International Film Festival
- Pioneer of parallel cinema and new wave Indian cinema
- Owner of production company Sahyadri Films
- President of the Federation of Film Societies of India
- Received eighteen National Film Awards, a Filmfare Award and a Nandi Award
- First documentary film: Gher Betha Ganga (1962)
- Produced over 900 sponsored documentaries and advertising films
- Founder of the movement of realistic and issue-based filmmaking known as New Indian Cinema
- Directed television series Bharat Ek Khoj (1988), a 53-episode series on Jawaharlal Nehru's Discovery of India
- Directed Making of the Mahatma (1996), a documentary on Gandhi's early years in South Africa
- Films Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975), Manthan (1976), and Bhumika (1977) established him as a pioneer of the new wave film movement
- Samar (1999) won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film and criticized the Indian caste system
- Director of the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) from 1980 to 1986
- Directed Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero (2005)
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