Directing

Dheeraj Jindal

Known for

Directing

Credits

10 titles

Dheeraj Jindal is a Mumbai-based filmmaker working across fiction, non-fiction and advertising. A postgraduate in film, his fiction debut, The School Bag (2017), starring Rasika Dugal and Sartaaj RK, travelled to 106 international festivals across 24 countries and won 44 awards, including multiple Best Director honours. He went on to direct acclaimed shorts including Momo Deal, Baj Gai Seeti, Vikalp and Trapped, featuring actors such as Anushka Kaushik, Gulshan Grover, Neha Sharma and Abhishek Banerjee. Trapped qualified for the Academy Awards. Dheeraj later moved into long-form storytelling, directing Netflix India's Indian Predator: The Diary of a Serial Killer, based on the Raja Kolande…

Known for

Behind the camera

Transistor poster
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Set in 1975 - Rural India, Transistor is a love story of two teenagers and how proclamation of the National Emergency and a Transistor made all the difference to their relationship.

Transistor

2021

Momo Deal poster
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A boy dealing with the emotions of the death of his best friend and moving on.

Momo Deal

2025

Momo Deal poster
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A boy dealing with the emotions of the death of his best friend and moving on.

Momo Deal

2025

Katran poster
5.5

A story of an aged couple who even after spending years of togetherness is staring into an uncertain future. Watch this powerful short now to find out whether they sail through this storm or give up on each other.

Katran

2018

Baj Gai Seeti poster
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Mahinder and Kallu are on the roll one last time, what happens when they are compelled to offer refuge to three students while the cops are on lookout.

Baj Gai Seeti

2022

Baj Gai Seeti poster
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Mahinder and Kallu are on the roll one last time, what happens when they are compelled to offer refuge to three students while the cops are on lookout.

Baj Gai Seeti

2022

The School Bag poster
7.8

The bond between a mother and her son is indeed a special one. It was the same between Farooq and his Ammi, but depends with he always longed for his father. They reside in the small town of Peshawar, Pakistan. Farooq, a child with a simple demand, wants to meet his father , whom he had not seen for long as his birthday gift. But his mother, did not really know how on earth she could fulfill her child's plea , coz his father had abandoned them for another woman. Unknown to Farooq, there is something waiting for him on his birthday.

The School Bag

2016

Sorry Bhaisaab poster
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This short film is a quirky tale of a middle-class couple , Varun and Kamla a.k.a Kimmi, residing in a typical DDA flats colony, and their desires, aspirations.

Sorry Bhaisaab

2021

Vikalp poster
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A small town girl with many aspirations has moved to a metro city to fulfill her dreams. Now what if she needs to choose between justice and her dreams?

Vikalp

2021

Vikalp poster
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A small town girl with many aspirations has moved to a metro city to fulfill her dreams. Now what if she needs to choose between justice and her dreams?

Vikalp

2021