Jyoti Sarup (born 20 August 1954 in New Delhi) is a National Award winning Indian film/serial director[1] and producer.
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An engineer by education, he received a Diploma from NSD and FTII for Acting. He came to Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1978 to become an actor. Not belonging to a film background, he had to start from scratch. He started off as a Chief Assistant Director to Late Mr. Ramanand Sagar.
After Acting in a few films& TV serials and being the Chief Assisting to a few directors of that time, e.g.: Late Shri Atma Ram & Shri Shakti Samata, he found himself more suited behind the camera than in front of it. He therefore started concentrating more and more on film & TV direction. His break as an individual director came from a Telefilm with Shekhar Suman & then he directed & acted in the Inspector Navin Mohan series of films, 90 minutes each with Navin Nischole & Mohan Gokhale & the Tele film Sandhya Chayya with Shri Ram Lagoo, Sulbha Deshpande, etc.
This tele film, Sandhya Chayya, got him the lifetime Chance for being the Episode Director of G. P. Sippy's famous TV serial Buniyaad. Since then he has Directed around 38 projects, from which & in one has also got the prestigious National Film Award, thus becoming the First Person to get a National Award for a Kashmiri Film, BUB. It was a Nargis Dutt award for the best Film on National Integration which was made after 38 years, in Kashmir.
He has also worked as the Head of the Production, with Sony TV also & brought it up from All India rating No. 9 to No. 2. & various other Channels & Production houses. He is an expert in live events & started this trend from "Lata Mageskar Live" when he was in Sony TV.
He has written few books too, one being on The Art of Acting.
Recently, he has worked in a, Two Oscar Award winning film, An Inconvenient Truth in which he edited the 96 minutes long film to 36 minutes, for Indian audiences, and he was the Dubbing Director of this film too, in Hindi. The Narrator of this film is Nobel Prize Winner Al Gore the Ex Vice President of USA. He has also done two short films on Environment, Energising India & Toxic Trespass.