Amole Gupte

Amole Gupte
Amole Gupte
Born	1962 (age 61–62); Mumbai, India
Occupation	Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Singer
Nationality	Indian
Children	Partho Gupte

Amole Gupte (born c. 1962) is an Indian screenwriter, actor, singer and director, known for his work on the 2007 Bollywood film Taare Zameen Par (Like Stars on Earth) as creative director and screenwriter.^[1]^[2] He conceived the film along with his wife, Deepa Bhatia (concept, research, and editing).^[3]^[4] He was the chairperson of the Children's Film Society, India from 2012 to 2015. And presently serves as a member of the advisory board of the Kautik International Student Film Festival.^[5]

Filmography

Director

Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer	Note
2007	Panga Naa Lo	No	Yes	No
2007	Taare Zameen Par	No	Yes	No	also Creative director
2011	Stanley Ka Dabba	Yes	Yes	Yes	^[6]
2014	Hawa Hawaai	Yes	Yes	Yes
2017	Sniff	Yes	Yes	Yes
2021	Saina	Yes	Yes	No

Actor

Mumbai Saga^[7] (2021)
Sniff (2017)
Ek Tara (2015)
Singham Returns (2014)
Bheja Fry 2 (2011)
Stanley Ka Dabba (2011)
Urumi (2011)^[8]
Phas Gaye Re Obama (2010)^[9]
Kaminey (2009)
Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (1992)
Holi (1984)

Awards

Year	Work	Award	Category	Result
2008	Taare Zameen Par	Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Awards^[10]	Best Story	Won
		Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Awards^[10]	Best Screenplay	Won
		Filmfare Awards	Best Story	Won
		Screen Awards	Best Story	Won
		Screen Awards	Best Dialogue	Won
		Zee Cine Awards	Best Story	Won
		V. Shantaram Award	Best Writer^[11]	Won
2010	Kaminey	Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Awards	Best Actor in a Negative Role	Nominated
		Filmfare Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Nominated
		IIFA Awards	Best Villain	Nominated
		Screen Awards	Best Villain	Nominated
		Screen Awards	Most Promising Newcomer – Male	Nominated
		Stardust Awards	Breakthrough Performance – Male	Nominated
		V. Shantaram Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Nominated

Notes

^ "Cinema quiz: Inside Hindi cinema's classrooms". The Hindu. 2 August 2019.
^ "Aamir avoids Amole Gupte, Anusha Rizvi". The Times of India. 16 June 2011.
^ "DNA Mumbai Anniversary: Amol Gupte on how Taare Zameen Par changed mindset about education". DNA India. 29 July 2018.
^ Vij, Gauri (3 February 2008). "A leap of faith". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 7 April 2008. Retrieved 11 April 2008.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ "Festival People – Kautik International Student Film Festival". 15 June 2023.
^ "Amole Gupte makes film out of children's workshop". IBN Live. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
^ "Sanjay Gupta nervous to shoot for 'Mumbai Saga'". The Times of India. 27 August 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
^ "'Urumi' is my comment on globalisation: Santosh Sivan". The Indian Express. 31 March 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
^ "Phas Gaya Re Obama songs, Phas Gaya Re Obama videos, 2005". Dhunio.com. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
^ "Winners of 4th Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Awards". bollywoodhungama.com. 5 December 2009.^{[dead link]}
^ "Winners of the V. Shantaram Awards 2008". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 3 February 2009. Retrieved 31 January 2009.

External links

Amole Gupte at IMDb

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[1] "Cinema quiz: Inside Hindi cinema's classrooms". The Hindu. 2 August 2019.

[2] "Aamir avoids Amole Gupte, Anusha Rizvi". The Times of India. 16 June 2011.

[dna-3] "DNA Mumbai Anniversary: Amol Gupte on how Taare Zameen Par changed mindset about education". DNA India. 29 July 2018.

[leap-4] Vij, Gauri (3 February 2008). "A leap of faith". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 7 April 2008. Retrieved 11 April 2008.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

[5] "Festival People – Kautik International Student Film Festival". 15 June 2023.

[6] "Amole Gupte makes film out of children's workshop". IBN Live. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2012.

[7] "Sanjay Gupta nervous to shoot for 'Mumbai Saga'". The Times of India. 27 August 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2019.

[8] "'Urumi' is my comment on globalisation: Santosh Sivan". The Indian Express. 31 March 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2012.

[9] "Phas Gaya Re Obama songs, Phas Gaya Re Obama videos, 2005". Dhunio.com. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2012.

[10] "Winners of 4th Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Awards". bollywoodhungama.com. 5 December 2009.^{[dead link]}

[11] "Winners of the V. Shantaram Awards 2008". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 3 February 2009. Retrieved 31 January 2009.

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v t e Filmfare Award for Best Story
1955–1970	Mukhram Sharma (1955) Rajinder Singh Bedi (1956) Amiya Chakrabarty (1957) Akhtar Mirza (1958) Mukhram Sharma (1959) Subodh Ghosh (1960) Ruby Sen (1961) C. V. Sridhar (1962) K. P. Kottarakara (1963) Jarasandha (1964) Ban Bhatt (1965) Akhtar Mirza (1966) R. K. Narayan (1967) Manoj Kumar (1968) Sachin Bhowmick (1969) Vasant Shankar Kanetkar (1970)
1971–1990	Chandrakant Kakodkar (1971) Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1972) Basu Bhattacharya (1973) Salim–Javed (1974) Kaifi Azmi, Ismat Chughtai (1975) Salim–Javed (1976) Balaichand Mukherjee (1977) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1978) Dinesh Thakur (1979) Shanker Shesh (1980) Vijay Tendulkar (1981) Chetan Anand (1982) Samaresh Basu (1983) S. D. Palwalker (1984) Mahesh Bhatt (1985) Aleem Masroor (1986) no award (1987) no award (1988) Subodh Ghosh (1989) K. Viswanath (1990)
1991–2010	Rajkumar Santoshi (1991 ) Honey Irani (1992) no award given (1993) Sutanu Gupta (1994) K. K. Singh (1995) Ram Gopal Varma (1996) Gulzar (1997) Kamal Haasan (1998) Mahesh Bhatt (1999) Vinay Shukla (2000) Honey Irani (2001) Ashutosh Gowariker (2002) Jaideep Sahni (2003) Nagesh Kukunoor (2004) Aditya Chopra (2005) Sudhir Mishra, Ruchi Narain & Shiv Kumar Subramaniam (2006 ) Rajkumar Hirani & Vidhu Vinod Chopra (2007) Amole Gupte (2008) Abhishek Kapoor (2009) Abhijat Joshi & Rajkumar Hirani (2010)
2011–present	Anurag Kashyap & Vikramaditya Motwane (2011) Sanjay Chauhan (2012) Juhi Chaturvedi (2013) Subhash Kapoor (2014) Rajat Kapoor (2015) V. Vijayendra Prasad (2016) Shakun Batra (2017) Amit V. Masurkar (2018) Anubhav Sinha (2019) Anubhav Sinha & Gaurav Solanki (2020) Anubhav Sinha & Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul (2021)

v t e Amole Gupte
Directed	Sniff (2017) Hawa Hawai (2014) Stanley Ka Dabba (2011)
Written	Taare Zameen Par (Like Stars on Earth) (2007)