Death Sentence is a 1997 drama film directed by Prakash Jha.
Prakash Jha is an Indian film producer-director-screenwriter, who is most known for his political and socio-political films such as Damul , Mrityudand , Gangaajal , Apaharan and multistarrer hit movie Raajneeti . He is also the maker of National Film Award winning documentaries like, Faces After... The Storm and Sonal . He now runs a production company, Prakash Jha Productions.Prakash Jha, owns the P&M Mall in Patna. Prakash Jha was born and raised raised at his family's farm in Baraharwa, Bettiah, West Champaran, Bihar, India. He did his schooling from Sainik School Tilaya, Koderma district and Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1, Bokaro Steel City . Later, he joined Ramjas College, Delhi University to do B.Sc in Physics; though he left studies after one year, and decided to go to Bombay and become a painter, though while he was preparing for J.J. School of Arts, he happen to witness the shooting of the film Dharma and got hooked on to filmmaking.more