Bharat Nalluri
Born: 1965
Episodes Broadcast: 2011
Although he was born in India, Bharat Nalluri moved with his family to
England when he was six years old, after his father -- a professor of
hydrology -- accepted a post there. During his teenaged years, Star
Wars inspired a love of movies and an ambition to be a director.
Nalluri briefly worked as a runner on Mike Figgis' Stormy Monday
(1988). He then began making short films, and completed a Masters of
Arts in film at the Northern School of Film and Television in Leeds,
West Yorkshire. In 1994, Nalluri was able to raise funds for a
feature-length action movie called Killing Time. Released in
1998, it performed well on video and provided him with the opportunity
to direct The Crow: Salvation, a 2000 crime sequel starring
Kirsten Dunst.
Nalluri was then offered directing assignments on more action movies,
but he was wary of being pigeonholed in the genre. Instead, he turned
his attention to television, initially making an episode of
Shockers, and subsequently moving on to the likes of
Spooks and Life On Mars. Nalluri supplied the original
idea which became Hustle, and he directed its first three
installments. In 2004, while making the miniseries Tsunami: The
Aftermath, he met journalist Kylie Morris, who was working on the
serial as a researcher. They would marry, and have a son and a daughter.
Meanwhile, Nalluri's eagerness to maintain diversity in his career
prompted him to tackle the Amy Adams movie comedy Miss Pettigrew
Lives For A Day. By 2009, he was regularly working on both sides of
the Atlantic; in the United States, he would often claim an executive
producer credit on the television episodes he directed, starting with an
installment of Cupid.
In 2011, Nalluri directed The New
World, the first episode of the fourth and final season for the
Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood, which was now being
made as a co-production between the BBC and the Starz network in the
United States. Amongst his other credits during the 2010s were
Outcasts, Emily Owens MD, The 100 and The
Player. Nalluri also made the Charles Dickens biopic The Man Who
Invented Christmas, and he returned to Spooks for its movie
spin-off, Spooks: The Greater Good. His projects in the Twenties
included episodes of Little America, Professionals and
Shantaram.
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