User:Mitu Bhowmick Lange

Mitu Bhowmick Lange is the company director of Mind Blowing Films which is a Melbourne based Production / Distribution film house (www.mindblowingfilms.com) distributing the leading Bollywood films and line producing Indian films in Australia.

After finishing film school, Mitu worked in Bombay for 6 years directing several TV shows including entertainment, news and fashion magazine programs and a daily breakfast show for most of the leading channels including BBC World, Star Plus, Zee TV and Sony TV. Mitu wrote and directed the multi award-winning documentary, Watch Without Prejudice, on the impact of violence on the children of Kashmir.

Since living in Australia after moving here after marriage to New Zealander Roy James Lange, Mitu has brought in and produced several Indian productions to Australia, including producing 13 episodes shot in Australia of India’s number 1 daily television serial Kahani Ghar Ghar Kii (similar to Neighbours), Bollywood film Koi Aap Saa and blockbusters like Salaam Namaste, Chak De India, Bachna Aye Haseeno, Main Aurr Mrs Khanna, Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic, Love Aaj kal and several leading television commercials with international cricketers made for the Indian market.

Mitu is instrumental in integrating Bollywood films with the mainstream films by exhibiting the films in all leading mainstream cinemas like Hoyts and Greater Union.

In 2009, Mitu started her own company called 'Mind Blowing Films' with Australian producer John Molloy and childhood friend Bidyut Dumra.

Mitu is also the festival director for the very popular and successful film festival - Indian Film Festival - Bollywood and Beyond. www.indianfilmfestival.com.au

The IFF is supported by the leaders of the Indian Film industry, Australian Government heads and the local film community. It is attended by Indian film-makers, actors and attracts a lot of local and Indian media. Over the last few years the festival has hosted film-makers and stars like Rani Mukherjee, Raju Hirani, Imtiaz Ali, Aamir Khan, Vidya Balan, Ali Zafar, Onir, Juhi Chawla, Kabir Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Malaika Arora Khan and Raj Kumar Gupta. IFF not only screens the popular Bollywood films but also the best of arthouse and regional films like Bengali, Tamil, Telegu and so forth.

The Festival also conducts a very popular 'Short Film Contest' - making the festival not only a platform that showcases the best of Indian cinema but also a springboard for emerging film-makers.

IFF is also perhaps the only Film Festival that holds a proud spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for the 'Largest Bollywood Dance Class', an event that was covered widely by most Australian and Indian news channels celebrating the multiculturalism of Melbourne.

Mitu is also the curator for the International Film Festival of India for films from Australia and New Zealand. IFFI is the oldest film festival in Asia and the biggest in India.

Mitu is currently working on her 4 part docu series - New India.