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Aakash Chhabra

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Biography

Aakash Chhabra is an independent writer, director and producer based in India. He is an alumnus of the Red Sea Director's Lab 2025 led by Spike Lee, CHANEL X BIFF Asian Film Academy 2024 - MPA Award, Torino Film Lab X The Lodge 2024 and Produire au Sud 2022. His work has been featured on Nowness Asia, Oberhausen Channel, Sight & Sound, and Platform Magazine.

Known For

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Kismateen, a 24-year-old brass band player in Old Delhi, tries to find his smile back with dental implants after being forcefully separated from the love of his life and losing his front teeth in a physical altercation.

I'll Smile in September

Mintgumri
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When Raag returns to his hometown after a long absence, he attempts to rekindle his friendship with his ailing grandfather, by dressing him up in the clothes he was wearing on the day they last met.

Mintgumri

2021
As Dusk Falls
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The promise of a bigger and better life in Canada where his older brother has already settled has long inundated the dreams of Navraj, a young Punjabi man in Chandigarh. But when his long-awaited visa finally gets approved, he realizes the cost of leaving home may be far greater than he ever anticipated. More than leaving behind his friends, he cannot bear to break the news to his beloved grandmother who adoringly depends on him.

As Dusk Falls

Warm Shadows
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An interlude of silence, longing and separation between a mother and a son.

Warm Shadows

2025
A Winter’s Elegy
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In the cast-off town of Panipat in North India, the history of fabric is fused with that of its migrants. With everyday images from in and around the harrowing industrial wasteland on a single winter day, the film essay ruminates on the memory of clothes and the desires of women who work all day in the ultraviolet lights longing for sunshine.

A Winter’s Elegy

2022
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Set inside a photobooth, this short film follows a queer couple as they navigate the complexities of a modern dating relationship.

Your Place Is Empty

A Season of Mangoes
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A young man struggles to keep his grandmother from losing her memories and realises that time is a lie.

A Season of Mangoes

2022