Hardik Mehta

Hardik Mehta is a filmmaker who works in both fiction and non-fiction. Amdavad Ma Famous (2016), his documentary film has traveled extensively at film festivals world over including HotDocs Canada, PalmSprings Film Festival and has won several awards including the Swarna Kamal, National Award for Best Non-Feature Film (2015). The film was also selected by French Academy of Cinema In 2017, he co-wrote the engaging survival thriller Trapped, starring Rajkummar Rao, directed by Vikramaditya Motwane; which got him his first Filmfare Award Nomination for Best Screenplay. He also wrote & directed The Affair - a short film presented by Drishyam Films that has received more than 5 millions views on social media platforms. In 2020, his debut fiction feature Kaamyaab released theatrically with rave reviews. Kaamyaab is produced by superstar Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment and Drishyam Films and it stars the brilliant actor Sanjay Mishra. Kaamyaab also had its world premiere at the prestigious Busan International Film Festival in South Korea. Hardik's second feature film is 'Roohi', a horror-comedy starring Rajkummar Rao, Janhvi Kapoor and Varun Sharma. Currently, he is also the showrunner and director on a Netflix's Original Series called 'Decoupled' starring R Madhavan and Surveen Chawla In 2017-18, Hardik also co-wrote Paatal-Lok, an Amazon Special limited series of 9 episodes which is produced by Clean Slate films.