Hardik Mehta

Biography

Hardik Mehta is a writer-director who works in both fiction as well as nonfiction formats.

He won the National Award, in addition to several other awards and honors across international film festivals, for his documentary short Amdavad Ma Famous set against the backdrop of the kite-flying festival in Gujarat.

Mehta graduated from AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Milia Islamia, with a degree of M.A. in Mass Communication. 

He spent the next few years working with some of the most renowned figures from the Indian film industry such as Dev Benegal, Vikramaditya Motwane, and Vikas Bahl – as an Assistant Director and script-continuity supervisor.

In 2015, he went on to direct his own documentary, Amdavad Ma Famous (2015), set against the backdrop of the kite-flying festival in Gujarat that won him the Swarna Kamal, National Award for Best Non-Feature Film in 2016.

In 2017, Hardik wrote and directed a short film, The Affair which was presented by Drishyam Films. Prolonging his association with the Lootera director, Vikramaditya Motwane, Mehta also co-wrote the script for the 2017 survival-thriller, Trapped.

His debut feature film Kaamyaab premiered at the 2018 Busan International Film Festival and later it was picked by superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who co-produced the film under his production house Red Chillies Entertainment along with Drishyam Films. 

Kaamyaab was released theatrically on March 6, 2020, to rave reviews and is now available on Netflix worldwide.

Mehta has also co-written the critically acclaimed Amazon Prime Video series, Paatal Lok.

His next directorial film Roohi, starring Rajkummar Rao, Varun Sharma, and Janhvi Kapoor released in March 2021.

Recently, Hardik was the director and showrunner for the Netflix series Decoupled starring R. Madhavan and Surveen Chawla.