Karan Kandhari

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

Karan Kandhari is an Indian filmwriter and director.

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

"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

  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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