Navroz Prasla is an award-winning Indian American Director with a Rule: “Always Focus on Ordinary People” Navroz Prasla has won numerous awards and says stories about the rich and famous “are not part of my emotional mind.” Navroz Prasla has several years of experience in the industry as an introspective capitalist and ingenious moviemaker. He recognized that the universal appeal of cultural differences was no bar to the global inquisitiveness and energy that Indian films generated. Intuitively, he saw a niche market in devising those films, telling those stories, of finding different perspectives for the American audience. Prasla is also the most recent recipient of the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented to him on behalf of the Biden Administration.
Navroz Prasla moved to Houston, Texas, 20 years back and sought to follow his dreams in the land of opportunities and made them happen. Since early 2000, he has been successfully promoting international performers in Texas. He founded Media Films Craft. His first production venture, Kshitij (meaning A Horizon), a Marathi language movie, was shot in Maharashtra, India. For the characters in his emotional bank, drawn from his own life in India, He always knew that circumstance could turn anything into a prized object.
He believes that people struggle with painstaking decisions and intricate compromises, anticipating one outcome but facing an entirely different result. His film revolves around that and tells the story of a 12 –year-old girl’s struggle to continue her education in the face of severe poverty and adversity. Resul Pookutty, an India-based sound designer, sound editor, and mixer who won an Oscar for Best Sound Mixing for the smash hit Slumdog Millionaire, lent his talent as a sound designer to Kshitij. The movie debuted in India on December 2, 2016, and won ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Medal was awarded in 2017 awarded as a State Award from India, along with many other international awards. Navroz, a gifted storyteller, with his most recent film in the making, is once again eyeing to win prestigious prizes with their ordinary characters engulfed deeply in thought-provoking subjects.
As a public figure with an international platform, Mr. Navroz Prasla is always mindful while navigating the social landscape, which requires a balancing act. Mr. Navroz prefers to make statements through films, he said, because art is more enduring and impactful than passing comments.” With this mindset, he founded NTV Houston, which was launched by Navroz Media Network Inc in 2017 with headquarters in Stafford, Texas. Aside from entertainment, NTV Houston also produces community interest coverage from their Stafford studio.
Over the past 17 years, the United States has lost one-fourth of its local newspapers – 2,100 publications, including 70 dailies and more than 2,000 weeklies. As a result, hundreds of communities – inner-city neighborhoods, suburban towns, and rural counties – are without reliable sources of local news and information. NTV-Houston, for the last five years, is striving to build social cohesion, encourage political participation, and improve community efficiency and their decision-making power with their creative and disciplined strategists and willingness to invest for the long-term to serve the information needs of our communities. NTV Houston’s agenda is always the debate and highlighting of important public policy issues, and that’s how they are managing to influence the course of history.
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