Rahat Mahajan
Directing
Biography
Rahat MAHAJAN is a director, cinematographer, editor, screenwriter and producer. He gained a Bachelor of Mass Media degree from St. Xaviers College, Mumbai and an MFA from the ArtCenter College of Design in Los Angeles. Mahajan’s first short film Memoirs of an Apple won the first prize at the IDPA film festival in 2006 and was aired on Indian national television. Shortly after, he started working in the Bombay film industry, starting out as an assistant director and ultimately spearheading Visual Promotions for several acclaimed feature films. His short film Istifa, made on a Visual Communications Fellowship, was a National Finalist under the narrative category for the 41st Student Academy Awards in 2014. His debut feature film Meghdoot/The Cloud Messenger (2022), part of the IFFR 2022 Tiger Competition, is a contemporary tale of reincarnation about two lovers meeting in the present day after several centuries of longing, yet still trapped in their destiny of a perpetual cycle of love and death. Mahajan founded his production company Mahamudra Collective in 2005 and Inspired by his own roots, he wishes to weave stories that are sensitive and yet urgent in their mission to bring the vastness of Indian thought to the world in an approachable manner.
Known For
Upon returning to his industrial hometown, a young man must decide whether to follow his own dreams or acquiesce to his father's plans for his future.
Udaan
Two brothers, as different as chalk and cheese, find their lives intertwined when one puts himself in danger via a `get rich quick' scheme and the other finds there is a price on his head.
Kaminey
While on the run from goons, a man and his nephew fall for a kidnapper's seductive widow.
Ishqiya
Uniforms, morning roll call, order, and discipline determine life at a prestigious boarding school somewhere in the Himalaya’s misty foothills. 16-year-old Jaivardhana isn’t thriving in this authoritarian environment. An opportunity for temporary respite from this strict regime presents itself, when a former teacher visits the school and offers interested students a photography workshop. During Mr Sapru’s inspiring lessons, the young people don’t learn about depth of field or shutter speed, but they do learn to open their senses and experience the world around them.
Meghdoot - The Cloud Messenger
Asim, a mild mannered shopkeeper, is forced into a corner as his innocent brother Hakim is taken to jail. He takes on the mission to save his brother but makes a bad decision as he ends up kidnapping a child.
Bloodline
After losing his fiance in a fire, Tyler is given a short window of time by an archeologist to travel back to the moment the fire occurred, but on the condition of saving the archeologist's daughter who died at the same incident.
The Bijou: A One Way Crossing
Two philosophers discuss their ideas. The next day one of them is getting married and invites the others.
An Invitation
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Memoirs of an Apple
Towards the end of the eighth century, an architect journeys across the lower Himalayas in search of the perfect site for constructing a temple, not merely as a place of worship but as a monumental record crystallizing the collective accomplishment of a civilization.
The Unknown Craftsman
A married couple is stuck in a rut of chicken dinners and TV nights. But when the wife impulsively attends an open house, the fantasy of a blank slate unearths long buried feelings that force her to question if her own house -- and her marriage -- is really her home.
If You Lived Here You'd Be Home Already
Set in a remote Indian village, Resignation tells the story of a day in the life of a meek and submissive clerk, when his boss humiliates him beyond measure and the events that follow.
Istifa
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Tyaag
Good Morning explores the insecurities and obsessions of a married man who is completely dedicated to his wife. His world is shattered one day when he finds his wife with another man. What happens next is cold, diabolical and shocking.
Good Morning
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What's the 48?
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Still I Rise
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Blackmail Business
A social initiative for grass root development through sport and music.
Roots Festival
GULFAREEN, a young vivacious spirit, is the eldest in a family of three children who are all hearing impaired. We explore the family's struggle, which had to relocate to the city in order to have access to the school for their children and how they are barely able to make ends meet on the sole insufficient income of the father. Amidst this, we share her little joys, hopes and dreams along with exploring her confident and outgoing personality as she takes us through her world.
Gulfareen
The story begins with Dr. Wiseman, a 50 year old British dentist landing himself a role in one of his patients film who happens to be a film producer. The doctor had a real passion and was obsessed with the mere idea of being on the stage thus thinks of this as an opportunity to reignite and live his long lost dream. On realizing that it's just a small walk on role, he goes through the journey from disappointment towards the realization that no role, no dialogue is too small for a real actor and performs the role wholeheartedly, walking away with a sense of complete satisfaction.
A Scene with Dialogue?
Inside a boiling-hot trailer in Texas, T. and Sugar don't mix.