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}}Manish G. Acharya (14 June 1967 – 4 December 2010) was an Indian film director and actor. Acharya was best known for Loins of Punjab Presents, the film he co-wrote with Anuwab Pal, directed, acted in, and co-produced.[1] Released theatrically to great critical acclaim in 2007 in India and the USA, the film starred Shabana Azmi, Ayesha Dharkar and Ajay Naidu among others.[1] Manish Acharya's other film credits include a cameo in the 2009 Zoya Akhtar film, Luck by Chance and a narrator in Nina Paley's animation feature film Sita Sings the Blues.[1]

Acharya completed his Undergraduate Studies from Grinnell College in Iowa, USA, with a major in Physics.[2][3] He then received a Masters Degree from Iowa State University in Industrial Relations.[2] Acharya worked in the US corporate world as Head of Marketing at Microsyrategy, and was featured on the cover of Marketing Magazine at the age of 27. At the age of 30, Manish left corporate America to study film directing, and received his Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University (NYU)'s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts.[1] Loins Of Punjab Presents was his first feature film as well as his thesis film, and it became the highest grossing English language comedy in India. It won several awards, including the IFFLA's 2008 Audience Choice Award for Best Feature and Sapporo Asian Film Festival of Dallas's 2008 Best Narrative Feature Award.

Acharya was critically injured in a horse riding accident on 4 December 2010, in Matheran, India. He is survived by his wife, artist Dhruvi Acharya and their two children Malhar and Aman.

References

1. ^{{cite news |first= |last= |title=Manish Acharya dies after falling off a horse |url=http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_story.aspx?ID=ENTEN20100162222&keyword=bollywood&subcatg=MOVIESINDIA |work=Press Trust of India |publisher=NDTV |date=2010-12-05 |accessdate=2010-12-26 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101208060821/http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_story.aspx?ID=ENTEN20100162222&keyword=bollywood&subcatg=MOVIESINDIA |archivedate=8 December 2010 |df= }}
2. ^https://www.facebook.com/manish.acharya?sk=info
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://loggia.grinnell.edu/page.aspx?pid=818 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-04-28 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314040300/http://loggia.grinnell.edu/page.aspx?pid=818 |archivedate=14 March 2012 |df=dmy-all }}

External links

  • {{IMDb name|id=1054473|name=Manish Acharya}}
  • [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/movies/12loin.html Loins of Punjab Presents in New York Times]
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