Siddharth Kak
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Siddharth Kak is a Kashmiri
India
n documentary
maker, television producer, and presenter, best known as the producer and presenter of Surabhi (1993–2001). Subsequently, Kak established the 'Surabhi Foundation' with the assistance of Ford Foundation
and started a project on preserving cultural artefacts.
. He was educated at Lawrence School, Sanawar
and subsequently graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi
.
(a popular Gujarati drama artist).
movies. One of her memorable roles was playing Mithun Chakraborty
's mother in the film 'Disco Dancer
'.
Kashmiri Pandit
The Kashmiri Pandits are a Hindu Brahmin community originating from Kashmir, a mountainous region in South Asia.-Background:The Hindu caste system of the region was influenced by the influx of Buddhism from the time of Asoka, around the third century BCE, and a consequence of this was that the...
India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
maker, television producer, and presenter, best known as the producer and presenter of Surabhi (1993–2001). Subsequently, Kak established the 'Surabhi Foundation' with the assistance of Ford Foundation
Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is a private foundation incorporated in Michigan and based in New York City created to fund programs that were chartered in 1936 by Edsel Ford and Henry Ford....
and started a project on preserving cultural artefacts.
Early life
Kak was born in Kashmir and was brought up in DelhiDelhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
. He was educated at Lawrence School, Sanawar
Lawrence School, Sanawar
The Lawrence School is situated in Sanawar, adjacent to Kasauli in Himachal Pradesh, India. It was founded by Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence of the Indian Army of British India and was established on 15 April 1847.The school has educated many notable people...
and subsequently graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi
St. Stephen's College, Delhi
St. Stephen's College is a constituent college of the University of Delhi located in Delhi, India. The college admits both undergraduates and post-graduates, and awards degrees under the purview of the University. Famous for its rich history and many traditions, St...
.
Career
Siddharth Kak is currently hosting Travel-Show Indiadhanush on NDTV Imagine with Ami TrivediAmi Trivedi
Ami Trivedi is an Indian television and theatre artist. She has done Gujarati theatre for many years. She has appeared in number of Hindi serials also. Her father is a well-known theatre actor, Tushar Trivedi who has been involved in Gujarati plays for over 20 years...
(a popular Gujarati drama artist).
Personal life
He is married to Geeta Kak, a small time actress in BollywoodBollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
movies. One of her memorable roles was playing Mithun Chakraborty
Mithun Chakraborty
Mithun Chakraborty is an Indian film actor, social activist, and entrepreneur, who has won three National Film Awards. He made his acting debut with the arthouse drama Mrigaya , for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Actor....
's mother in the film 'Disco Dancer
Disco Dancer
Disco Dancer is a 1982 Hindi-language Indian feature film directed by Babbar Subhash starring Mithun Chakraborty in lead role and Rajesh Khanna in a special appearance. The film tells the rags-to-riches story of a young street performer...
'.
Works
- Looking in, looking out. Writers WorkshopWriters WorkshopWriters Workshop is a Calcutta-based literary publisher founded by the poet-professor P. Lal in 1958. Over the next few decades it published many new authors in urban literature of the post-independence period. These authors later became big names.-History:...
, 1975. ISBN 0892531169. - Surabhi Ke Sau Sawaal. Rupa & Co. 2005. ISBN 8129105446.