The world of cinema doesn't afford you to lie, if you are making documentaries. Fiction can be dubious. And tracing truth is not easy. it is demanding, challenging, frustrating and even insulting. if one can withstand all this, make documentaries.
Dinesh Lakhanpal, a creative writer-turned-journalist-turned film maker, heads a leading production house in Mumbai, India, the Mecca of Indian Film and Television Industry. With four international and two national awards, he has to his credit more than seventy documentaries and short films seventy, a feature film as Director-Script Writer and hundreds of articles contributed to almost all leading Hindi and English newspapers and magazines in India, on subjects as varies as Food, Hunger, Agriculture, socio-economic, socio-political, art, literature and traditional crafts including some biographical work on some leading Indian personalities.
He has actively participated in various International events like International Hindi Conference on Hindi Teaching in SEA at TUFS, Tokyo, Japan, COP 7 of the CBD Meeting at Kuala Lumpur, World Forum on Communication Rights, WSIS, Geneva, Switzerland, 7th World Hindi Conference, Suriname, Regional Seminar for the Protection of Farmer’s Rights, Kathmandu, Nepal, World Summit for Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, Conference on Sustainable Justice, Montreal, Canada, Conference on Intellectual Property Rights, Developing Countries and Poor People, held by UK Govt.’s Commission on IPR at. London, Millennium Wetland Event, Quebec 2000, COP 5 meeting of CBD held at UNEP HQs, Nairobi and World Bhojpuri Conference, Mauritius . At present he is also involved with a leading English monthly on governance, published from New Delhi, Gfiles – inside the government, as Editorial Consultant and a web-portal Bollywoodtoday.in the same capacity.
  • Director (11 Credits)
    A VISIONARY PAR EXCELLENCE : Dr Raj Paroda - The Man who Transformed Agriculture2026
    Documentary
    TOSHA MAIDAAN - Bombarded for Fifty Years2021
    Documentary
    A Quiet Roar2019
    Documentary, Short
    The Wounded Souls of the Rann2019
    Documentary
    SONU AND SONPARI2017
    Short
    WE ALL ARE ONE2016
    Documentary
    The Black Gold of Bidar2012
    Documentary
    IN HARMONY WITH NATURE2011
    Documentary
    TANA BANA2011
    Documentary
    They Never Knew2010
    Documentary
    FOOD FOR ALL - the spiritual dimension2006
    Documentary
  • Writer (4 Credits)
    A VISIONARY PAR EXCELLENCE : Dr Raj Paroda - The Man who Transformed Agriculture2026
    Documentary
    TOSHA MAIDAAN - Bombarded for Fifty Years2021
    Documentary
    A Quiet Roar2019
    Documentary, Short
    WE ALL ARE ONE2016
    Documentary
Best Message Film
A Quiet Roar
Great Message International Film Festival
Pune
2019
None
TANA BANA
Public Screening of CSMVS films
Mumbai
Finalist
The Wounded Souls of the Rann
Eurasia Monthly International Film Festival
Moscow
Finalist
The Wounded Souls of the Rann
Independent Shorts Awards
Hollywood, Los Angeles
Birth Date
February 12, 1953
Birth City
Delhi
Current City
Mumbai
Hometown
Delhi
Height
5.7 inches
Gender
Male
Ethnicity
Asian
Eye Color
Brown
Zodiac Sign
Capricorn
The life is a tragedy if you feel it and a comedy if you THINK it a la Shakespeare... at his subtle best...
The world of cinema doesn't afford you to lie, if you are making documentaries. Fiction can be dubious. And tracing truth is not easy. it is demanding, challenging, frustrating and even insulting. if one can withstand all this, make documentaries.
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