Tarsem Singh

For the Indian field hockey player, see Tarsem Singh (field hockey).

Tarsem Singh
Singh at WonderCon 2011
Born	Tarsem Singh Dhandwar (1961-05-26) 26 May 1961 Jalandhar, Punjab, India
Other names	Tarsem
Occupation	Film director, producer, screenwriter
Years active	1990–present
Website	www.tarsem.org

Tarsem Singh Dhandwar (Punjabi: ਤਰਸੇਮ ਸਿੰਘ ਧੰਦ੍ਵਾਰ; born 26 May 1961), known professionally as Tarsem, is an Indian-American director who has worked on films, music videos, and commercials.

Early life

Tarsem was born in Jalandhar, Punjab to a Punjabi Sikh family. His father was an aircraft engineer.^[1] He attended Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, Hans Raj College in Delhi, and is a graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.^[2]

Career

Tarsem began his career directing music videos, including those of "Hold On" by En Vogue, "Sweet Lullaby" by Deep Forest and R.E.M.'s smash hit "Losing My Religion", the latter of which won Best Video of the Year at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards. He has directed dozens of commercials for brands such as Nike and Coca-Cola.^[3] Tarsem's feature film directorial debut was The Cell (2000), starring Jennifer Lopez.

In 2003, Tarsem directed one of the most elaborate Pepsi commercials to date. It combined a gladiator theme with Queen's "We Will Rock You". The commercial starred Enrique Iglesias in the version of the commercial aired in Europe and North America and Amr Diab in the version aired in the Arab world. In the western version, Iglesias plays the role of an emperor hoarding Pepsi with Britney Spears, Pink, and Beyoncé Knowles all playing similar roles of gladiatrices about to engage in combat for the emperor's and crowd's entertainment. Ultimately the gladiatrices turn against the emperor and throw him from his seat. On the other hand, Diab's version shows the gladiatrices being attacked by a lion after the emperor realizes their intentions.

Tarsem's second film, The Fall, debuted at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and was released theatrically in the United States in 2008. His third film was 2011's Immortals.^[1]^[4] He directed an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm story of "Snow White", called Mirror Mirror (2012).^[5]^[6]

Filmography

The Cell (2000)
The Fall (2006)
Immortals (2011)
Mirror Mirror (2012)
Self/less (2015)

References

1 2 Goldstein, Patrick (26 June 2007). "A 'Fall' no one wants to take". The Los Angeles Times.
↑ "Tarsem and the legend of "The Fall"". The Chicago Sun-Times.
↑ Chhabra, Aseem. "Hindi movies often do not capture the beauty of India". Rediff.
↑ Wise, Damon (4 October 2008). "Final fantasy". The Guardian. London.
↑ Kit, Borys (1 November 2010). "It's Official: Tarsem Directing Relativity's Snow White Movie". The Hollywood Reporter.
↑ Sarafin, Jarrod. "Singh Confirmed for Snow White". Mania.

In the ladder half of Kendrick Lamar's Track; M.A.A.D. City (2012) (Feat. MC eiht), the melody sampled is the one of Tarsem Singh's from his work in 'The Fall'. Music played in the film shortly after 'Roy's drowning scene'
Henry Keazor/Thorsten Wuebbena: Video Thrills the Radio Star – Musikvideos: Geschichte, Themen, Analysen, Bielefeld. 2005, p. 256–260.

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Films directed by Tarsem Singh

The Cell (2000) The Fall (2006) Immortals (2011) Mirror Mirror (2012) Self/less (2015)

BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards

Excellence in Film	Albert R. Broccoli (1989) Michael Caine (1990) Peter Ustinov (1992) Martin Scorsese (1993) Anthony Hopkins (1995) Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein (1996) Dustin Hoffman (1997) John Travolta (1998) Stanley Kubrick (1999) Steven Spielberg (2000) George Lucas (2002) Hugh Grant (2003) Tom Hanks (2004) Tom Cruise (2005) Clint Eastwood (2006) Denzel Washington (2007) Sean Penn (2008) Robert De Niro (2009) Jeff Bridges (2010) Warren Beatty (2011) Daniel Day-Lewis (2012) George Clooney (2013) Robert Downey Jr. (2014) Meryl Streep (2015) Jodie Foster (2016)

Excellence in Directing	Peter Weir (2003) Jim Sheridan (2004) Mike Newell (2005) Anthony Minghella (2006) Martin Campbell (2007) Stephen Frears (2008) Danny Boyle (2009) Christopher Nolan (2010) David Yates (2011) Quentin Tarantino (2012) Kathryn Bigelow (2013) Mike Leigh (2014) Sam Mendes (2015) Ang Lee (2016)

Worldwide Contribution to Entertainment	Howard Stringer (2003) Kirk Douglas (2009) Ridley Scott & Tony Scott (2010) John Lasseter (2011) Will Wright (2012) Sir Ben Kingsley (2013) Judi Dench (2014) Harrison Ford (2015) Samuel L. Jackson (2016)

British Artist of the Year	Rachel Weisz (2006) Kate Winslet (2007) Tilda Swinton (2008) Emily Blunt (2009) Michael Sheen (2010) Helena Bonham Carter (2011) Daniel Craig (2012) Benedict Cumberbatch (2013) Emma Watson (2014) James Corden (2015) Felicity Jones (2016)

Excellence in Comedy	Betty White (2010) Ben Stiller (2011) Trey Parker and Matt Stone (2012) Sacha Baron Cohen (2013) Julia Louis-Dreyfus (2014) Amy Schumer (2015) Ricky Gervais (2016)

Humanitarian Award	Richard Curtis (2007) Don Cheadle (2008) Colin Firth (2009) Idris Elba (2013) Mark Ruffalo (2014) Orlando Bloom (2015) Ewan McGregor (2016)

Retired Awards	BBC (1999) Aaron Spelling (1999) Tarsem Singh (1999) HBO Original Programming (2002) Angela Lansbury (2003) Helen Mirren (2004) Elizabeth Taylor (2005) Ronald Neame (2005) Sidney Poitier (2006) Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne (2007)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 7190663 LCCN: no2008016664 ISNI: 0000 0001 1929 9995 GND: 137658648 SUDOC: 150882122 BNF: cb140549304 (data)

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