Karan Kandhari

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Karan Kandhari is an Indian filmwriter and director.

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In 2009, Kandhari directed the short film Hard Hat, a melancholy tale of three immigrants who meet on a cash-in-hand construction job in London. The film was selected for numerous film festivals around the world, winning the Audience Award at the Rushes Soho Short Film Festival in 2010. [1]

Critical response

"There is evidence of better things to come from British Asian directors, as Karan Kandhari demonstrates with Bye Bye Miss Goodnight. Offering a uniquely avant-garde snapshot of modern urban India, this visually ambitious road movie belies its modest budget to chronicle the unlikely encounter between a daydreaming Mumbai cabby and a pregnant, hitchhiking free spirit." - David Parkinson, BBC Film [2]

References and notes

  1. http://sohoshorts.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/rushes-soho-shorts-winners-2010/ Rushes Soho Shorts Results 2010 (Retrieved: 15 August 2012)
  2. "Bite the Mango 2005".


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