1. Since then Nalin has been actively making fiction and non-fiction movies which have been coproduced with countries like India, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the USA.
19 Facts About Pan Nalin
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Pan Nalin left his family in young age in pursuit of cinema.
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Pan Nalin made some fifty wedding videos to finance his education and filmmaking.
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From Ahmedabad's famous Sunday Flea Market Pan Nalin found the old film cameras.
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Pan Nalin made four animations and twenty short silent films using these cameras.
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Pan Nalin finally moved to Mumbai, and got a break as a production runner at Durga Khote Productions.
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In 1988, Nalin conceived a unique comedy TV series of Doordarshan in collaboration with famous cartoonist R K Laxman; the series was later sold and became a major hit under the title of Wagle Ki Duniya.
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Pan Nalin traveled and lived in USA and UK for about a year and then six months in Europe.
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Pan Nalin soon returned to India and started writing screenplays and making documentaries.
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Pan Nalin made several of them with Discovery, Canal Plus, BBC and other leading international TV networks.
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Pan Nalin made short documentaries for Canal Plus on Indian superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Sridevi.
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Pan Nalin's independent moviemaking spirit attracted French documentary filmmaker Yolande Zauberman's attention; so while she was making her feature documentary Born Criminal in India, Pan Nalin shifted his career gears by becoming co-producer on the movie because he was highly impressed by Zauberman's style of moviemaking.
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Pan Nalin got a breakthrough with Cinematheque in Paris, where his documentary "Sacred Courtesan Devadasi" and his short fiction "Khajuraho" was being showcased, in the audience was Europe's prolific producer Karl Baumgartner.
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Pan Nalin came into global limelight; SAMSARA became a massive commercial and critical success worldwide and won him many international awards.
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In 2014, Pan Nalin made India's first female buddy Film, Angry Indian Goddesses.
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In 2021, Pan Nalin wrote, directed, and produced the semi-autobiographical Chhello Show, a Gujarati film.
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Pan Nalin believed that each story or screenplay is born with its own natural cinematic style, and Stanley Kubrick and Sergio Leone proved it with each and every movie they made.
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Pan Nalin finds the story, looks for its natural and organic cinematic style.
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Samsara was conceived with almost every frame storyboarded and composed by Pan Nalin, actors were restricted to respect that and were not allowed even the slightest of improvisation.