Ashish R. Shukla
Directing
Biography
Ashish was born in 1981 in Mumbai, India. He was raised in the neighborhood of Vakola, Santacruz. A commercial artist by qualification, Ashish worked for various ad agencies for 6 years as a creative director. In 2007 he joined Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap for his Film 'Dev.D' as creative head. Since then he directed a short films trilogy, ad films and documentaries. His show Candy has been awarded the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke award for best series. His last documentary "26/11 Inside Mumbai Terror Attack" that he directed for the National Geographic channel won him the best director in Indian Telly Awards 2010. Meanwhile, he directed a variety of films and web series genres for mainstream platforms.
Known For
Show depicts the two aspects of the society - the power-drunk influential people who think they can get away with anything and the oppressed, subjected to years of torture, who finally decide to bring themselves to justice
Undekhi
Set in the cold winter of Himalayas, Candy revolves around a horrific murder mystery of a high-school student which forces an agonized teacher and a crooked cop to bury their differences and hunt down the killer.
Candy
With their planned heist gone wrong, Bony and Fundoo get inextricably involved in the pursuit of 'Kohinoor' - quite possibly the biggest scandal the country will ever witness.
Bahut Hua Sammaan
Follows the story of Goldy, an ambitious but impatient young man, whose quest to get rich through a pyramid marketing business spirals into a rollercoaster of chaos - risking not just his future, but also the love and trust of his close-knit joint family.
The Pyramid Scheme
A city with a history of heritage, myth and superstition. A passionate architect with strong but delusional ideas about love and life. A Czech gypsy girl searching for her identity and true love. Add to the drama of a mean friend you can’t do without and cannot trust either. The conflict of these complex characters is further heightened with illusions of someone who is there but at the same time not there- what you see is not true? or is the truth, what you not see? All of the above are thrown together in a very unique and unusual situation where you do not know what to believe and what to disbelieve.