A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Amritsar, Punjab, India
Born:
March 3, 1955
Died:
October 25, 2012
Jaspal Singh Bhatti (3 March 1955 – 25 October 2012) was an Indian television personality known for his satirical take on the problems of the common man. He is most well known for his television series Flop Show, Full Tension and mini capsules Ulta Pulta which ran on Doordarshan, India's national television network, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was commonly known as "King of Comedy" and also "King of Satire". He carried out various anti corruption crusades in Chandigarh. His frontal attack on issues like redtapism, nepotism, and corruption was both comic and awakening for masses.
Director:
1999 Mahaul Theek Hai
2005 Jija Ji
2006 Shahji Ki Advice
2012 Power Cut
Screenplay:
1999 Mahaul Theek Hai
2005 Jija Ji
2006 Shahji Ki Advice
2012 Power Cut
Script:
1999 Mahaul Theek Hai
2001 Bhand Punjab De
2005 Jija Ji
2006 Shahji Ki Advice
2012 Power Cut
Writer:
1999 Mahaul Theek Hai
2001 Bhand Punjab De
2005 Jija Ji
2006 Shahji Ki Advice
2012 Power Cut
Creator:
1989 Flop Show
1994 Full Tension
Director:
1989 Flop Show
1994 Full Tension
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.