Arjun Lal
Directing
Biography
Arjun Lal is a Mumbai-based writer-director working across fiction, documentary, and advertising. A graduate of Prague Film School (Direction & Screenwriting), he has directed shorts, documentaries, and brand campaigns for leading names. His graduation film Adhura (2020) premiered at several international festivals including NYIFF, BISFF, and TSAFF, earning him the Best Director Faculty Award at Prague Film School. He was an Associate Director on 1947: Brexit India - a two-hour international documentary hosted by Boman Irani and featuring Dr. Shashi Tharoor and William Dalrymple amongst others was officially selected at IFFI and MIFF. In 2025, he directed a short-doc - Deewar Nāma (Chronicles of the Walls) for the Charles Correa Foundation. His latest work - Mother Tongue - a 20-min children’s short film, was commissioned by LXL Ideas & School Cinema and produced under Eclectic Films - exploring identity and language. He has completed a feature-length screenplay and continues to develop multiple projects in both fiction and documentary space.
Known For
The film explores Mumbai’s walls as living storytellers — canvases of memory, protest, and change. Through artists, commuters, and anonymous voices, the film reveals how every brushstroke resists time, control, and erasure.
Deewar Nāma (Chronicles of the Walls)
A poor hawker-cum-drummer in a wedding band, desperate to buy a mobile for his hearing impaired mother, goes out of the way to get hold of some money, only to meet with a tragic end.
Adhura
When a spirited ten-year-old boy is mocked in class for calling "sign language" his mother tongue, he must rediscover pride in his identity, with the quiet support of his grandmother and the love that language can hold beyond words.
Mother Tongue
A writer faces a writer's block and then...
The Adventures of Fay & Stan
When a warm-hearted Black actor shooting a street-crime scene in a European city is suddenly abused by a racist onlooker, the blurred lines between performance and prejudice expose the real violence lurking beneath the make-believe.