Suresh Jindal

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Nov 25, 2022: The Times of India

New Delhi : Suresh Jindal produced iconic films such as Shatranj Ke Khiladi, Katha and Rajnigandha.


Jindal was also the co-producer of Richard Attenborough’s Oscar-winning, Gandhi(1982).


Born in Malerkotla, Jindal studied electrical engineering in the University of California, Los Angeles in the 1960s. In an interview with Sahapedia four years ago, he recalled how Santa Monica boulevard was a semi-slum area those days. Cinema lovers would rent a store that had gone out of business and show films of Kurosawa, Fellini and Ray on 16mm projectors. “That’s how I got fascinated by cinema,” he said.


Back home, the electronics engineer who had also worked briefly in NASA, was expected to do business but things didn’t work out. One day an acquaintance came and asked him if he wanted to distribute New Wave films. Jindal had read about them in the papers and said he was interested in producing one. The acquaintance set up a meeting with director Basu Chatterjee, who gave him four story plots to read, he said in the Sahapedia interview. Jindal opted for Mannu Bhandari's Yehi Sach Hai, which wasmade into Rajnigandha(1974).


Flush with the film’s critical and commercial success, he wanted to do something bigger. A speech delivered by Satyajit Ray in FTII, Pune, the same year, further sparked Jindal’s desire to work with him. “I knew he had already refused offers by such stalwarts as Raj Kapoor, S. S. Vasan and Tarachand Barjatya to make a film in Hindi; perhaps it was the audacity of youth, sudden success and a deep longing just to be with this great man that nurtured such fantasies in me,” Jindal wrote in his book, My Adventures with Satyajit Ray.


Film director Tinnu Anand helped set up his meeting with Ray at the latter’s residence. It was a meeting of opposites. As Jindal memorably wrote, “I was 5’6” tall and he was 6’2”…I was from a well-to-do, non-intellectual, conservative, vegetarian Jain–Bania family from Punjab…. Whereas Ray was from a distinguished family of Bengal that was aristocratic, highly accomplished both academically and artistically and progressive…I had lived in half a dozen countries; he had never lived anywhere but in Calcutta. ” But the meeting turned out to be fruitful and the film is regarded as a classic.