Rahat Mahajan

Directing

Rahat Mahajan

India

Rahat MAHAJAN is a director, cinematographer, editor, screenwriter and producer. He gained a Bachelor of Mass Media degree from St. Xaviers College, Mumbai and an MFA from the ArtCenter College of Design in Los Angeles. Mahajan’s first short film Memoirs of an Apple won the first prize at the IDPA film festival in 2006 and was aired on Indian national television. Shortly after, he started working in the Bombay film industry, starting out as an assistant director and ultimately spearheading Visual Promotions for several acclaimed feature films. His short film Istifa, made on a Visual Communications Fellowship, was a National Finalist under the narrative category for the 41st Student Academy Awards in 2014. His debut feature film Meghdoot/The Cloud Messenger (2022), part of the IFFR 2022 Tiger Competition, is a contemporary tale of reincarnation about two lovers meeting in the present day after several centuries of longing, yet still trapped in their destiny of a perpetual cycle of love and death. Mahajan founded his production company Mahamudra Collective in 2005 and Inspired by his own roots, he wishes to weave stories that are sensitive and yet urgent in their mission to bring the vastness of Indian thought to the world in an approachable manner.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Meghdoot - The Cloud Messenger poster
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Uniforms, morning roll call, order, and discipline determine life at a prestigious boarding school somewhere in the Himalaya’s misty foothills. 16-year-old Jaivardhana isn’t thriving in this authoritarian environment. An opportunity for temporary respite from this strict regime presents itself, when a former teacher visits the school and offers interested students a photography workshop. During Mr Sapru’s inspiring lessons, the young people don’t learn about depth of field or shutter speed, but they do learn to open their senses and experience the world around them.

Meghdoot - The Cloud Messenger

2022

Meghdoot - The Cloud Messenger poster
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Uniforms, morning roll call, order, and discipline determine life at a prestigious boarding school somewhere in the Himalaya’s misty foothills. 16-year-old Jaivardhana isn’t thriving in this authoritarian environment. An opportunity for temporary respite from this strict regime presents itself, when a former teacher visits the school and offers interested students a photography workshop. During Mr Sapru’s inspiring lessons, the young people don’t learn about depth of field or shutter speed, but they do learn to open their senses and experience the world around them.

Meghdoot - The Cloud Messenger

2022

Meghdoot - The Cloud Messenger poster
NR

Uniforms, morning roll call, order, and discipline determine life at a prestigious boarding school somewhere in the Himalaya’s misty foothills. 16-year-old Jaivardhana isn’t thriving in this authoritarian environment. An opportunity for temporary respite from this strict regime presents itself, when a former teacher visits the school and offers interested students a photography workshop. During Mr Sapru’s inspiring lessons, the young people don’t learn about depth of field or shutter speed, but they do learn to open their senses and experience the world around them.

Meghdoot - The Cloud Messenger

2022

No artwork available
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A social initiative for grass root development through sport and music.

Roots Festival

2011

No artwork available
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No synopsis available yet.

Blackmail Business

2014

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No synopsis available yet.

Tyaag

2012

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Set in a remote Indian village, Resignation tells the story of a day in the life of a meek and submissive clerk, when his boss humiliates him beyond measure and the events that follow.

Istifa

2014

No artwork available
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Set in a remote Indian village, Resignation tells the story of a day in the life of a meek and submissive clerk, when his boss humiliates him beyond measure and the events that follow.

Istifa

2014

No artwork available
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Set in a remote Indian village, Resignation tells the story of a day in the life of a meek and submissive clerk, when his boss humiliates him beyond measure and the events that follow.

Istifa

2014

No artwork available
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No synopsis available yet.

Still I Rise

2017

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The story begins with Dr. Wiseman, a 50 year old British dentist landing himself a role in one of his patients film who happens to be a film producer. The doctor had a real passion and was obsessed with the mere idea of being on the stage thus thinks of this as an opportunity to reignite and live his long lost dream. On realizing that it's just a small walk on role, he goes through the journey from disappointment towards the realization that no role, no dialogue is too small for a real actor and performs the role wholeheartedly, walking away with a sense of complete satisfaction.

A Scene with Dialogue?

2013

No artwork available
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The story begins with Dr. Wiseman, a 50 year old British dentist landing himself a role in one of his patients film who happens to be a film producer. The doctor had a real passion and was obsessed with the mere idea of being on the stage thus thinks of this as an opportunity to reignite and live his long lost dream. On realizing that it's just a small walk on role, he goes through the journey from disappointment towards the realization that no role, no dialogue is too small for a real actor and performs the role wholeheartedly, walking away with a sense of complete satisfaction.

A Scene with Dialogue?

2013

No artwork available
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GULFAREEN, a young vivacious spirit, is the eldest in a family of three children who are all hearing impaired. We explore the family's struggle, which had to relocate to the city in order to have access to the school for their children and how they are barely able to make ends meet on the sole insufficient income of the father. Amidst this, we share her little joys, hopes and dreams along with exploring her confident and outgoing personality as she takes us through her world.

Gulfareen

2014

No artwork available
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GULFAREEN, a young vivacious spirit, is the eldest in a family of three children who are all hearing impaired. We explore the family's struggle, which had to relocate to the city in order to have access to the school for their children and how they are barely able to make ends meet on the sole insufficient income of the father. Amidst this, we share her little joys, hopes and dreams along with exploring her confident and outgoing personality as she takes us through her world.

Gulfareen

2014

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Memoirs of an Apple

2006