Anand Gandhi Biography and Career
Anand Gandhi is an Indian filmmaker, entrepreneur, media producer, innovator and systems researcher. He was born on 26 September 1980. In this article we are going to talk about the biography, career, notable works, films and family of filmmaker Anand Gandhi so read the article till the end.
He is also the founder/CEO of the Mumbai-based new media studio and systems think tank Memesys Culture Lab. His debut feature film Ship of Theseus (2013), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival won the National Film Award for Best Picture.
Career
Anand Gandhi is a famous television and film celebrity and he worked in so many movies, this biography article is incomplete without talking about his films and shows. So here you will gain info about his films and projects.
Anand Gandhi’s writing career began in 2000 when he wrote dialogue for the first eighty-two episodes of popular daily soap opera Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi and screenplay for Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii, both of which became the longest running shows on Indian Television.
The same year, Anand’s play Sugandhi was awarded the prestigious National Prize. Most of his plays, including Sugandhi, Pratyancha, Kshanotsav, Na, and Janashtaru were written for the alternative one-act theatre. Anand has penned one mainstream Gujarati play Chal Reverse Ma Jaiye and produced Grey Elephants In Denmark (2009), a Hindi/English play written and directed by Chaitanya Tamhane.
Gandhi’s film as creative director, executive producer and co-writer, Tumbbad opened the Critics’ Week at the 75th Venice Film Festival, released to a wide critical acclaim in October 2018.
In 2017, he produced An Insignificant Man – a nonfiction thriller directed by Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla on the rise of the Aam Aadmi Party in India. It was released to widespread international and domestic acclaim. The film was picked up by Vice for International distribution.
Actor and producer Ajay Devgn bought rights to Gandhi’s play Beta Kaagdo. It has been made into the feature film Helicopter Eela, starring Bollywood actress Kajol. Gandhi is also the co-creator of ElseVR, India’s first virtual reality (VR) platform aiming to bring “extraordinary and urgent stories” to the digital mainstream.
Anand Gandhi delivered his INK Talk at the annual INK conference in 2013 where he enumerated his motivations behind making films while expounding on the role of memes in choice-creation. He was a mentor at the Xprize Visioneers 2016 Summit, an annual gathering of the Xprize enterprise, a leading global non-profit dedicated to encouraging “radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity” through incentivized prize competitions.
Short biography of Anand Gandhi
Anand Gandhi dropped out of college at the age of 18. Anand was fascinated by the idea of using neuroscience and evolutionary biology to answer deep and persistent questions of philosophy. He has cited Richard Dawkins and Douglas Adams as early influences.
In 1996, Anand Gandhi pursued a program in graphic design and started a studio called Ciceros Graphics. He also taught Adobe Photoshop and other digital tools, new at the time, to traditional graphic designers. At 16, Anand assisted activist and polemist Abhay Mehta with the maintenance of a whistleblowing website.
Anand Gandhi was born into a Vaishnav Gujarati family and spoke Gujarati for the first ten years of his life, and his surname was Modi. Later his mother got re-married and he was adopted and raised by a Gujarati Jain family, changing his surname to Gandhi.
He has always identified himself as thoroughly non-religious and atheistic. He lives with his partner Kani Kusruti in Mumbai. He loves Gujarati poetry, including that of Ramesh Parekh, Mareez, and Shekhadam Abuwala. He writes poetry but does not publish it.
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Random biography facts about Anand Gandhi
While on the steering committee of the 48th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Gandhi served as the creative director of the new VR chapter of the festival.
Anand Gandhi moderated a masterclass at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2017 on the future of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR).
Gandhi was invited by the I&B Ministry to lead the VR chapter of the 48th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), 2017 held in Goa. He delivered a masterclass on VR as the new medium to “preserve records and memories for posterity”.
Anand Gandhi unveiled a poster of his next project, Emergence, on the seventh anniversary of his film Ship of Theseus on Sunday.
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