Directing
Ashoke Viswanathan
Known for
Directing
Credits
22 titles
Ashoke Viswanathan is the son of late N. Viswanathan and a post graduate in film direction from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. Subsequently, he completed a certificate course in video production from the same institute in 1986. Since then, he has been active in both film and video media as a director, screenplay writer, actor and presenter, having directed more than 150 films and television programmes including feature films, documentaries, telefilms, music videos, and teleserials. He has won three National Awards and two International Awards. Three of his feature films and two of his short features have been included in the Indian Panorama sections of IFFI ’94, 1999, 2001…
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7.3Filmed in India, Rumer Godden’s story has been adapted and directed by the Jewel in the Crown team. Two English schoolgirls arrive in New Delhi, 1959. Their diplomat father has secured them a beautiful Eurasian governess. 15-year-old Una suspects an ulterior motive. But her father’s affairs take second place to her own when she has a secret affair with the Indian gardener.
The Peacock Spring
1996
7.0During the 1960s Naxalite movement in Calcutta, an Economics professor sympathetic to the movement is arrested, tortured, and imprisoned for ten years. Upon his release, he returns to a transformed city, only to discover that the traumas of the past continue to haunt him.
Sunya Theke Suru
1993
Directed by Ashoke Viswanathan.
Andhakarer Shabdo
2006
5.0Ria marries to a police officer, Bidhan who is on the hunt for the notorious underground revolutionary, Sadhan. It so happens that Riya, inadvertently or otherwise, has been harbouring the "criminal" Sadhan. Moreover, Riya knew Sadhan in theri college days and they were very close, even intimate.
1+1=3 Ora Tinjon
2015
NRBhrashta Tara Is A Bengali Film Based On Dowry System In India. Amar, A Diligent Student, Who During His College Days Is Engaged To Be Married To Surama, A Beautiful Village Girl.
Bhrashta Tara
2015
NRWhen COVID-19 hits Khokon falls into substance abuse. With a lawyer's aid his wife Ganga and their 5 year-old daughter Durga escape with schoolmaster transforming their lives.
Noishabdo
2024
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
2000s · 2 titles
9.0When a woman loses her baby, her husband abandons her and she starts showing schizophrenic symptoms. She sets her eyes on her elder sister's husband and tries to get close to him.
Byatikrami
2006
4.0Six people from different backgrounds share their love stories, lovers and relationships. In the process they come to terms with their own thoughts and feelings.
Aamra
2006
1990s · 3 titles
7.3Filmed in India, Rumer Godden’s story has been adapted and directed by the Jewel in the Crown team. Two English schoolgirls arrive in New Delhi, 1959. Their diplomat father has secured them a beautiful Eurasian governess. 15-year-old Una suspects an ulterior motive. But her father’s affairs take second place to her own when she has a secret affair with the Indian gardener.
The Peacock Spring
1996
7.0During the 1960s Naxalite movement in Calcutta, an Economics professor sympathetic to the movement is arrested, tortured, and imprisoned for ten years. Upon his release, he returns to a transformed city, only to discover that the traumas of the past continue to haunt him.
Sunya Theke Suru
1993
7.0Residents of Calcutta find solace from their hectic daily lives in conversations at one cafe or another. Newton is a member of one such group of cafe regulars. He appears to be in a romantic relationship with Ananya. Newton wants to start a business. Ananya consults her actress friend Laboni, who asks script-writer Arup to help Newton. However, Arup is perhaps too mysterious a character.
Dialogue & Delirium
1999
Behind the camera
7.0During the 1960s Naxalite movement in Calcutta, an Economics professor sympathetic to the movement is arrested, tortured, and imprisoned for ten years. Upon his release, he returns to a transformed city, only to discover that the traumas of the past continue to haunt him.
Sunya Theke Suru
1993
Directed by Ashoke Viswanathan.
Andhakarer Shabdo
2006
5.0Ria marries to a police officer, Bidhan who is on the hunt for the notorious underground revolutionary, Sadhan. It so happens that Riya, inadvertently or otherwise, has been harbouring the "criminal" Sadhan. Moreover, Riya knew Sadhan in theri college days and they were very close, even intimate.
1+1=3 Ora Tinjon
2015
5.0Ria marries to a police officer, Bidhan who is on the hunt for the notorious underground revolutionary, Sadhan. It so happens that Riya, inadvertently or otherwise, has been harbouring the "criminal" Sadhan. Moreover, Riya knew Sadhan in theri college days and they were very close, even intimate.
1+1=3 Ora Tinjon
2015
NRBhrashta Tara Is A Bengali Film Based On Dowry System In India. Amar, A Diligent Student, Who During His College Days Is Engaged To Be Married To Surama, A Beautiful Village Girl.
Bhrashta Tara
2015
9.0When a woman loses her baby, her husband abandons her and she starts showing schizophrenic symptoms. She sets her eyes on her elder sister's husband and tries to get close to him.
Byatikrami
2006
9.0When a woman loses her baby, her husband abandons her and she starts showing schizophrenic symptoms. She sets her eyes on her elder sister's husband and tries to get close to him.
Byatikrami
2006
Raji, a Subaltern woman, is exploited at every stage of her life; first by the feudal lord Ramanuj, then by the family who raises her, and then by the Naxalites who provide her shelter when she needs it most.
Sesh Sanghat
2009
7.0Residents of Calcutta find solace from their hectic daily lives in conversations at one cafe or another. Newton is a member of one such group of cafe regulars. He appears to be in a romantic relationship with Ananya. Newton wants to start a business. Ananya consults her actress friend Laboni, who asks script-writer Arup to help Newton. However, Arup is perhaps too mysterious a character.
Dialogue & Delirium
1999
7.0Residents of Calcutta find solace from their hectic daily lives in conversations at one cafe or another. Newton is a member of one such group of cafe regulars. He appears to be in a romantic relationship with Ananya. Newton wants to start a business. Ananya consults her actress friend Laboni, who asks script-writer Arup to help Newton. However, Arup is perhaps too mysterious a character.
Dialogue & Delirium
1999
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Badal Sircar & the Alternative Theatre
2021
NRA superannuated gentleman residing in the countryside is suddenly drawn into the world of theatre. The local group wants him in a Bengali version of a Pirandello play and he becomes involved with one of the players, a young girl in her twenties who, like him, is new to theatre. Against the backdrop of the pandemic and the imminent war in Ukraine, this story of a highly unlikely relationship unfolds even as a strictly conservative society looks on with baited breath. As the pandemic necessitates a hiatus in the rehearsals and the emptiness of his house engulfs him, the lonely gentleman gets sucked into a world of fantasy; his expectations build up and he becomes acutely sensitive to his milieu.
Hemanter Aparanha
2024
NRA superannuated gentleman residing in the countryside is suddenly drawn into the world of theatre. The local group wants him in a Bengali version of a Pirandello play and he becomes involved with one of the players, a young girl in her twenties who, like him, is new to theatre. Against the backdrop of the pandemic and the imminent war in Ukraine, this story of a highly unlikely relationship unfolds even as a strictly conservative society looks on with baited breath. As the pandemic necessitates a hiatus in the rehearsals and the emptiness of his house engulfs him, the lonely gentleman gets sucked into a world of fantasy; his expectations build up and he becomes acutely sensitive to his milieu.
Hemanter Aparanha
2024
NRA superannuated gentleman residing in the countryside is suddenly drawn into the world of theatre. The local group wants him in a Bengali version of a Pirandello play and he becomes involved with one of the players, a young girl in her twenties who, like him, is new to theatre. Against the backdrop of the pandemic and the imminent war in Ukraine, this story of a highly unlikely relationship unfolds even as a strictly conservative society looks on with baited breath. As the pandemic necessitates a hiatus in the rehearsals and the emptiness of his house engulfs him, the lonely gentleman gets sucked into a world of fantasy; his expectations build up and he becomes acutely sensitive to his milieu.
Hemanter Aparanha
2024

