Mitu Bhowmick Lange


Mitu Bhowmick Lange is an Indian-Australian filmmaker, film producer and founder-director of Mind Blowing Films, a distribution company. She is the current tender provider and director of Indian Film Festival of Melbourne, a Victorian government funded annual film festival that started in 2012. She has also provided line production services for the Hindi films Salaam Namaste, Koi Aap Sa, Chak De India, Bachna Ae Haseeno, Main Aurr Mrs Khanna and Love Aaj Kal. Lange was awarded Jill Robb Screen Leadership Award for 2017 from Film Victoria.

Career

Lange spent six years in Mumbai directing TV shows for the news, fashion and entertainment industries. She produced a daily breakfast show that ran across the networks BBC World, Sony TV, Star Plus and Zee TV.
She has produced several Hindi films, including Salaam Namaste, Koi Aap Sa, Chak De India, Bachna Ae Haseeno, Main Aurr Mrs Khanna and Love Aaj Kal.
She founded Mind Blowing Films in 2009, which releases and distributes Indian films in Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji.
In 2010, she launched the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne, a film festival showcasing Indian cinema to Australian audiences.
Lange produced Spice Girls of India, which was screened at the London Feminist Film Festival. In 2016, she co-produced Raising the Bar, an Indo-Australian documentary film about six youths with Down syndrome.
She also curates Australian and NZ films for various festivals in India. In November 2019, Lange designed and curated the Australia Focus at the 24th edition of the Kolkata International Film Festival.

Filmography

YearTitlePosition
2005Salaam NamasteLine Producer
2005Koi Aap SaLine Producer
2007Chak De! IndiaLine Producer
2008Thoda Pyaar Thoda MagicLine Producer
2008Bachna Ae HaseenoLine Producer
2009Love Aaj KalLine Producer
2009Main Aurr Mrs KhannaLine Producer
2013The Spice Girls of IndiaProducer
2016Raising The BarProducer
2013The Spice Girls of IndiaDirector
Watch without PrejudiceDirector
2018The SecondExecutive producer
2019 AmarExecutive producer
UndertowExecutive producer

Personal life

She was born and brought up in Delhi, India. She moved to Melbourne in 2002 after her marriage to Roy Lange, son of former Prime Minister of New Zealand, David Lange, and has a daughter.

Awards

In December 2017, she received the Jill Robb Screen Leadership Award from Film Victoria for outstanding leadership, mentorship and service to the Screen Industry in Australia. She was also awarded Indywood Carnival's Most Popular Indian Film Festival Abroad in 2017.