Directing
Aakash Chhabra
Known for
Directing
Credits
8 titles
Aakash Chhabra is an independent writer, director and producer based in India. He is an alumnus of the Red Sea Director's Lab 2025 led by Spike Lee, CHANEL X BIFF Asian Film Academy 2024 - MPA Award, Torino Film Lab X The Lodge 2024 and Produire au Sud 2022. His work has been featured on Nowness Asia, Oberhausen Channel, Sight & Sound, and Platform Magazine.
Known for
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Indications
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NRWhen Raag returns to his hometown after a long absence, he attempts to rekindle his friendship with his ailing grandfather, by dressing him up in the clothes he was wearing on the day they last met.
Mintgumri
2021
NRAn interlude of silence, longing and separation between a mother and a son.
Warm Shadows
2025
Kismateen, a 24-year-old brass band player in Old Delhi, tries to find his smile back with dental implants after being forcefully separated from the love of his life and losing his front teeth in a physical altercation.
I'll Smile in September
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NRIn the cast-off town of Panipat in North India, the history of fabric is fused with that of its migrants. With everyday images from in and around the harrowing industrial wasteland on a single winter day, the film essay ruminates on the memory of clothes and the desires of women who work all day in the ultraviolet lights longing for sunshine.
A Winter’s Elegy
2022
NRA young man struggles to keep his grandmother from losing her memories and realises that time is a lie.
A Season of Mangoes
2022
Behind the camera
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Indications
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NRWhen Raag returns to his hometown after a long absence, he attempts to rekindle his friendship with his ailing grandfather, by dressing him up in the clothes he was wearing on the day they last met.
Mintgumri
2021
NRWhen Raag returns to his hometown after a long absence, he attempts to rekindle his friendship with his ailing grandfather, by dressing him up in the clothes he was wearing on the day they last met.
Mintgumri
2021
NRAn interlude of silence, longing and separation between a mother and a son.
Warm Shadows
2025
Kismateen, a 24-year-old brass band player in Old Delhi, tries to find his smile back with dental implants after being forcefully separated from the love of his life and losing his front teeth in a physical altercation.
I'll Smile in September
—
Kismateen, a 24-year-old brass band player in Old Delhi, tries to find his smile back with dental implants after being forcefully separated from the love of his life and losing his front teeth in a physical altercation.
I'll Smile in September
—
NRIn the cast-off town of Panipat in North India, the history of fabric is fused with that of its migrants. With everyday images from in and around the harrowing industrial wasteland on a single winter day, the film essay ruminates on the memory of clothes and the desires of women who work all day in the ultraviolet lights longing for sunshine.
A Winter’s Elegy
2022
NRA young man struggles to keep his grandmother from losing her memories and realises that time is a lie.
A Season of Mangoes
2022
