Achal Mishra

Directing

Achal Mishra

Born

1996-09-23 (30)

Place of birth

Darbhanga, Bihar (India)

Known for

Directing

Credits

11 titles

Achal Mishra is an Indian filmmaker and photographer from Darbhanga, Bihar, currently based out of Mumbai. He made his directorial debut with the feature-length film "Gamak Ghar" in 2019, which premiered at the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2019, where it won the Manish Acharya Award for New Voices in Indian Cinema. He directed his second film, "Dhuin," in 2022. Both his films (Gamak Ghar & Dhuin) have screened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Known for

Behind the camera

Chaar Phool Hain Aur Duniya Hai poster
10.0

A meandering brook of moments from two afternoons spent with Vinod Kumar Shukla, his wife and son at their home in Raipur, saunters between the mingling geographies of past, present and future, drifting in and out of pauses – to ponder, to reflect, to reminisce, and to share.

Chaar Phool Hain Aur Duniya Hai

2024

Chaar Phool Hain Aur Duniya Hai poster
10.0

A meandering brook of moments from two afternoons spent with Vinod Kumar Shukla, his wife and son at their home in Raipur, saunters between the mingling geographies of past, present and future, drifting in and out of pauses – to ponder, to reflect, to reminisce, and to share.

Chaar Phool Hain Aur Duniya Hai

2024

Gamak Ghar poster
9.3

In a north Indian village, a family reunites at their ancestral home to celebrate a new birth in the family. It’s a joyous, carefree occasion. Over the next two decades, through festivals and feasts, births and deaths, the film observes one house as it ages and falls to neglect.

Gamak Ghar

2019

Gamak Ghar poster
9.3

In a north Indian village, a family reunites at their ancestral home to celebrate a new birth in the family. It’s a joyous, carefree occasion. Over the next two decades, through festivals and feasts, births and deaths, the film observes one house as it ages and falls to neglect.

Gamak Ghar

2019

Gamak Ghar poster
9.3

In a north Indian village, a family reunites at their ancestral home to celebrate a new birth in the family. It’s a joyous, carefree occasion. Over the next two decades, through festivals and feasts, births and deaths, the film observes one house as it ages and falls to neglect.

Gamak Ghar

2019

On Either Sides of the Pond poster
8.0

Sumit and Priyanka, an eloped couple, return to their hometown, due to the financial hardships caused by the lockdown. As Priyanka seeks to leave Sumit and return to her conservative father's home, Sumit, oblivious to this, wastes his time away.

On Either Sides of the Pond

2022

Ri poster
NR

Glimpses of everyday life in Ladakh on a long summer evening. Through vignettes of daily life, landscapes, and wildlife, set entirely during the liminal blue hour, Ri paints a portrait of Ladakh as seen through the eyes of a traveller.

Ri

2023

Ri poster
NR

Glimpses of everyday life in Ladakh on a long summer evening. Through vignettes of daily life, landscapes, and wildlife, set entirely during the liminal blue hour, Ri paints a portrait of Ladakh as seen through the eyes of a traveller.

Ri

2023

Dhuin poster
8.7

Pankaj is a small-town theatre actor with dreams of making it big in Mumbai. But faced with obligations to his family, which is under a deep financial strain post the lockdown, he is forced to weigh his dreams and make a choice.

Dhuin

2022

Dhuin poster
8.7

Pankaj is a small-town theatre actor with dreams of making it big in Mumbai. But faced with obligations to his family, which is under a deep financial strain post the lockdown, he is forced to weigh his dreams and make a choice.

Dhuin

2022

Dhuin poster
8.7

Pankaj is a small-town theatre actor with dreams of making it big in Mumbai. But faced with obligations to his family, which is under a deep financial strain post the lockdown, he is forced to weigh his dreams and make a choice.

Dhuin

2022