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Tarsem Singh

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Birth Name: Tarsem Singh Dhandwar

Age: 63, born 26 May 1961

Country of origin: India

Height: 5' 6"


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The Battle of the 'Snow Whites' (13 items)
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Published 13 years, 6 months ago 9 comments
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The 15 Most Accomplished Music Video Directors (15 items)
list by Georgini
Published 8 years ago
9 votes
Directors (405 items)
list by Gabrilele
Published 13 years, 3 months ago 2 comments
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Best Up and Coming Directors (2011 Edition) (50 items)
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Published 13 years, 11 months ago 3 comments
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JoBlo Movie Jail Candidates (182 items)
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Description: Indian director Tarsem Singh is the son of an aircraft engineer. He was educated at Bishop Cotton Boy's School in Shimla and relocated to the USA to study business at Harvard and, significantly, film studies at the Art Center College of Design in California. Upon graduating he embarked on a career as a director of music videos, working with such artists as Suzanne Vega, En Vogue, Vanessa Paradis and, most notably, R.E.M.. Tarsem's video for their song 'Losing My Religion', went on to win six MTV Video Music Awards, including the coveted 'Video of the Year'. As well, as music videos, Tarsem has directed some high profile telev ... (more)
Tags: Indian (3), Director (3), Male (1), Actor (1), Filmmaker (1), Sikh (1), Born 1961 (1), The Fall (1)
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Movies directed by

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1. The Cell (2000)
Rating:
5.9
1104 Watched
2. The Fall (2006)
Rating:
7.8
704 Watched
3. Immortals (2011)
Rating:
5.7
723 Watched
4. Mirror Mirror (2012)
Rating:
5.7
628 Watched
5. Self/less (2015)
Rating:
6.2
185 Watched




Movies written by

1. The Fall (2006)
Rating:
7.8
704 Watched




TV

Rating:
6.7
84 Watched
Rating:
8.3
23 Watched
3. Jet 7 (1996)
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Movies

Rating:
9.3
4 Watched




TV directed by

Rating:
6.5
28 Watched




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Georgini added this to a list 8 years ago
The 15 Most Accomplished Music Video Directors (15 person items)

"Best Music Videos: “Hold On”, En Vogue (1990); “Losing My Religion”, R.E.M. (1991) Best Movies: The Cell (2000), The Fall (2006) Give Tarsem Singh a mediocre script, and he’ll mold the underwritten dud into a visual goldmine. With his striking 2000 debut, The Cell, the Indian director, previously known for R.E.M.’s award-winning “Losing My Religion” video, took an intriguing premise (psychologist enters a psycho’s mind to find a missing girl) and went ballistic, using the film"