Prashant Nair
Biography
Prashant Nair is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his 2015 feature film Umrika, starring Suraj Sharma and Tony Revolori, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and won the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award.
His latest feature, Tryst With Destiny, premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival where it won the Best Screenplay in an International Narrative award.
He initially worked as a social media entrepreneur until late 2010 when he first transitioned towards a film career. His first full-length film was the micro-budget Delhi In A Day which Nair has said he made as "a sort of film school." The film went on to have a limited theatrical release in India in 2012 and was well received by critics, voted one of the top ten independent films of the year by Times of India.
In 2018, Nair directed two episodes of the Amazon Prime TV series Made In Heaven.
Tryst With Destiny, a co-production between Drishyam Films and Backup Media, won the Best Screenplay in an International Narrative award at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival where it screened for a jury that included Demián Bichir, Danny Boyle, Judith Godrèche, Sabine Hoffman and William Hurt.
Nair will be adapting the non-fiction book Trial by Fire as a web series. Written by Neelam and Shekhar Krishnamoorthy, the couple who lost their children in the Uphaar cinema fire, it chronicles the event and their subsequent battle for justice.
