| Anand Gandhi आनंद गांधी |
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Anand Gandhi |
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| Born | 26 September 1980 Mumbai |
| Occupation | Filmmaker |
| Awards | Best Short Film, Syracuse International Film Festival |
Anand Gandhi (आनंद गांधी) (born 26 September 1980 in Mumbai, India) is an independent filmmaker and screenwriter based in Mumbai. He was initially involved in parallel theatre, where he wrote and directed several critically acclaimed plays. He is also a visiting lecturer at many mass media colleges.
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His film directorial debut Right Here Right Now (2003) achieved substantial critical acclaim. Right Here Right Now is a 30 minute long film that deals with the idea of cyclic causality. His second film Continuum (2006) has been co-directed by Khushboo Ranka. Continuum is a montage of simple stories from everyday life, popular culture and folklore that explore "the continuum of life and death, of love and paranoia, of trade and value, of need and invention, of hunger and enlightenment".
Anand Gandhi's writing career began in 2000 with the emergence of the daily soap genre in India. He wrote dialogue for the first eighty-two episodes of the extremely popular show Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. Kyunki... and his other show Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii, for which he wrote screenplay, are the longest running TV shows in the history of Indian Television. He is often quoted for his disgust over the aesthetics of Indian Television, including the shows he wrote for.
He moved away from his television career to write and direct highly acclaimed award-winning plays like Sugandhi, Pratyancha, Kshanotsav, Na and Janashtaru. Almost all his work has been produced for the alternative one act theatre. Till date, he has written only one mainstream play Chal Reverse Ma Jaiye. It achieved moderate success commercially, and won the Transmedia Best Play award for 2005.
His first feature length film "The Ship of Theseus" is now under postproduction.
Anand Gandhi has won the following awards (in bold) and nominations.