Hardik Mehta(I)

Director
Producer
Writer

Winner of more than 15 National and International awards including the 2015 National Film Award for Best Non Feature Film, Amdavad Ma Famous (Famous In Ahmedabad) is set during the kaleidoscopic backdrop of the biggest kite-flying festival in India, The film witnesses the transformation of an 11-year-old Zaid from a boy next door to an aggressive and a passionate kite-runner, till he comes across a challenge that threatens to keep him away from the one thing he loves.

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Trailer - Famous In Ahmedabad

Hardik Mehta is a writer-director who works in fiction and non fiction formats. Amdavad Ma Famous (2016), his documentary film has traveled extensively at film festivals world over including HotDocs Canada, PalmSprings, US, at the French Academy of Cinema and has won several awards including the Swarna Kamal, National Award for Best Non-Feature Film (2015).

His debut feature Kaamyaab (2020) produced by Red Chillies Entertainment and Drishyam Films released theatrically with rave reviews and also had its World Premiere at Busan International Film Festival. His second feature film 'Roohi' starring Rajkumar Rao and Janhvi Kapoor also released theatrically in 2021. Hardik also co-wrote the film Trapped (2017) and Paatal-Lok (2020), an Amazon series of 9 episodes which won him and the writing team FilmFare Awards for Best Story and Best Screenplay. Hardik has been the showrunner and the director for the Netflix series Decoupled (2021) starring R Madhavan and recently he has just finished shooting a love story for Dharmatic Entertainment and Amazon Prime's upcoming anthology.