K. P. Sasi

Sasi's father K. Damodaran (25 February 1912 – 3 July 1976) was a Marxist theoretician and writer and one of the founder leaders of the Communist Party of India.{{citation needed|date= September 2022}} He started working as a cartoonist while being a student at JNU during the late seventies. He started experimenting with films on 8mm during the early eighties. His documentaries include "A Valley Refuses to Die", "We Who Make History", "Living in Fear", "In the Name of Medicine" and "Voices from a Disaster", Fabricated!, America America, Resisting Coastal Invasion and Development at Gunpoint.{{Cite news |title=Director KP Sasi passes away |language=en |url=https://english.mathrubhumi.com/movies-music/news/director-kp-sasi-passes-away-1.8164350 |access-date=2022-12-25}}{{Cite news |title=Film, documentary maker KP Sasi passes away |language=en |url=https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/12/25/documentary-director-kp-sasi-passes-away.html |access-date=2022-12-25}}

His feature films include Ilayum Mullum, on the social and psychological violence on women in Kerala.{{citation needed|date= September 2022}} Ek Alag Mausam (A Different Season) (Hindi: एक अलग मौसम) is a 2003 Hindi language movie directed by Sasi and starring Nandita Das, Anupam Kher, Renuka Shahane, Rajit Kapur, Arundathi Nag, Sreelatha and Sally Whittaker, and Ssh..Silence Please,{{cite web |url=http://www.thehindu.com/lf/2003/05/29/stories/2003052901310200.htm |title=The Hindu : When silence is golden |website=www.thehindu.com |access-date=2 February 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150311110746/http://www.thehindu.com/lf/2003/05/29/stories/2003052901310200.htm |archive-date=11 March 2015 |url-status=dead}} a silent comedy film on development. He was a founder member of ViBGYOR Film Festival.{{citation needed|date= September 2022}}

Sasi died in Thrissur, Kerala, on 25 December 2022, at the age of 64.[https://english.mathrubhumi.com/movies-music/news/director-kp-sasi-passes-away-1.8164350 Director KP Sasi passes away]{{Cite web|url=https://maktoobmedia.com/2022/12/25/veteran-filmmaker-kp-sasi-dies-at-64/amp/|title=Veteran filmmaker KP Sasi dies at 64(1994)|access-date=25 December 2022|archive-date=27 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221227055257/https://maktoobmedia.com/2022/12/25/veteran-filmmaker-kp-sasi-dies-at-64/amp/|url-status=dead}}

• 2016 – Voices from the Ruins
• 2014 – Fabricated'
• 2009 – A climate call from the coast
• 2009 – Like leaves in a storm'
• 2009 – Tsunami rehabilitation an unfinished business
• 2009 - Gaon chodab nahin
• 2007 – Resisting Coastal Invasion
• 2006 – If It Rains Again'
• 2005 – Redefining Peace – Women lead the way
• 2005 – America, America
• 2004 – The Source of Life for Sale
• 2003 – Ssh..Silence Please
• 2002 – Development at Gunpoint
• 2001 – Voices from a Disaster
• 1998 – Ek Alag Mausam
• 1994 – The Wings of Kokkrebellur
• 1993 – Appukkuttan in Time Runs
• 1991 – Ilayum Mullum
• 1988 – A Valley Refuses to Die
• 1989 – A Campaign Begins
• 1988 – The Rope
• 1987 – In the Name of Medicine
• 1986 – Living in Fear
• 1985 – We Who Make History and That Angry Arabian Sea
• 1984 - Science to People

2004 – InPosters

2000 – When the Birds Stop Singing

{{Reflist}}

[https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-unquestioned-power-can-lead-to-fascism-fabricated-director-kp-sasi-1902338]

[https://english.mathrubhumi.com/mbifl2018/speakers/kp-sasi-1.2560608]

[https://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/en/contributer/detail/K.P.-SASI] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609110136/https://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/en/contributer/detail/K.P.-SASI |date=9 June 2021 }}

[https://countercurrents.org/author/k-p-sasi/]

[https://www.poemhunter.com/k-p-sasi/]

[http://www.socialsciencecollective.org/state-manufactures-terrorism-kp-sasi/]

[https://scroll.in/article/657425/attack-on-film-festival-in-keralas-cultural-capital-shows-rising-hindutva-presence-in-liberal-state]

[https://www.thesabha.org/kp-sasi-unwritten-knowledge-third-cinema-and-human-political-power/06/2018/conversation/interviews/]

[http://www.palakkadinsight.com/2019/07/31/shri-k-p-sasi-wins-the-fifth-insight-award-for-lifetime-achievement/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231213126/http://www.palakkadinsight.com/2019/07/31/shri-k-p-sasi-wins-the-fifth-insight-award-for-lifetime-achievement/ |date=31 December 2019 }}

[https://caravanmagazine.in/noticeboard/public-statement-in-solidarity-with-zafarul-islam]

[https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/A-story-of-ruined-souls/article14498736.ece]

[https://www.deccanchronicle.com/entertainment/music/160517/not-a-nossu-idea.html]

[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/capturing-the-spark-that-led-to-communal-riot-in-kandhamal/articleshow/57178586.cms]

[https://thewire.in/film/filmmakers-statement-lok-sabha-bjp]

• {{Cite web |title=America America Music Video | website=YouTube | date=28 August 2012 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DtNr8VwWJo |access-date=2022-12-25 |language=en}}
• https://www.madhyamam.com/opinion/articles/kp-sasi-struggle-and-memories-1111108
• https://www.manoramanews.com/news/breaking-news/2022/12/25/film-documentary-director-kp-sasi-passed-away-25.html
• https://www.mathrubhumi.com/movies-music/news/documentary-director-kp-sasi-passed-away-1.8164336
• https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/documentary-filmmaker-kp-sasi-passes-away/article66304997.ece
• https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/malayalam/movies/mollywood-director-kp-sasi-passes-away/articleshow/96511706.cms

{{commons category|K.P. Sasi}}

{{authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sasi, K.P.}}

Category:1958 births

Category:2022 deaths

Category:Film directors from Thrissur

Category:Malayalam film directors

Category:Writers from Thrissur

Category:Indian editorial cartoonists

Category:20th-century Indian people

Category:21st-century Indian people