Shravan Kashyap
Directing
Biography
Shravan Kashyap is a storyteller at heart, drawn to the quiet spaces where human emotion meets social reality. His work looks at people in moments of change — holding on to memory, dignity, and meaning as the world shifts around them. Trained in direction at FTII, Pune, he approaches cinema as a way of noticing. His films pay attention to silences, overlooked lives, and the emotional weight carried in everyday systems and spaces. Across fiction and documentary, his cinema remains deeply people-centered — gentle, observant, and rooted in empathy.
Known For
What do you do when the world has moved on leaving you behind? Bhavābdhi means the ocean of life. The film revolves around a popcorn seller in a single screen theatre and how he deals with the closure of the theatre he has spent a majority of his life in. The film takes inspiration from the rampant rise of multiplexes and rampant closures of single screens throughout the country.
Bhavābdhi
Īkṣaṇa means to see. The film is about a bunch of kids watching a sleazy film sneakily and the effect a film would have on an impressionable mind. It also looks into the working conditions especially of women in the film industry.
Īkṣaṇa
Is there more to a baby’s cry? The documentary dwells into the psyche of pediatric doctors and the skills they use to arrive at a diagnosis.
Decoding Cries
Karuna is a short film about the ordeals of a woman in a hospital. The film uses an innovative technique of telling a story only through static images.
Karuna
Usually single screen theaters are paved down to make way for modern establishments but Uma theater is one such establishment that is still holding its ground, how?
The Manager
A multi-camera exercise conducted in a professional studio environment of a magic show with Pune’s famous magician Prasad Kulkarni.