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Karan Kandhari

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Kandhari at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of Sister Midnight

Karan Kandhari is a British Indian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.

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] In 2024, his directorial debut film Sister Midnight had its world premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.[2]

Critical response

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"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[3]

References and notes

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  1. ^ http://sohoshorts.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/rushes-soho-shorts-winners-2010/ Rushes Soho Shorts Results 2010 (Retrieved: 15 August 2012)
  2. ^ Roxborough, Scott (16 April 2024). "Cannes Directors' Fortnight Lineup Unveiled". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
  3. ^ "Bite the Mango 2005".
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