Atma Ram Padukone (1930–94) was a Hindi film and TV director born in Calcutta.
He was the younger brother of legendary film maker Guru Dutt[1][2][3] His father Shivshankar Padukone was a clerk at Burmah Shell and his mother was a teacher.
After doing some clerical work he joined the Socialist Party (1948–50).He was an active trade unionist and secretary of the Press Workers’ Union.
Umang was his first independent Atma Ram Films production,with the then unknown Subhash Ghai as actor.
His Yeh Gulistan Hamara, for Guru Dutt Films, is a nationalist movie in which Dev Anand, on behalf of the Indian government, quells the North Eastern frontier tribals with love.