Anil Sadrangani
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Assistant
Anil Sadarangani is a UCLA trained writer and filmmaker. He worked in
the Indian media for 10 years, from 2000 to 2010. An English graduate
from the University of Mumbai, he worked as a writer in leading
publications like the Times of India (The World's Largest Selling/
Circulated English Broadsheet Daily), Mid-Day, DNA and others. In his
latest writing venture, he was instrumental in getting international
publisher Harper Collins to publish the Coffee Table book of the first
Indian to win an Oscar award, acclaimed and multiple award-winning
veteran costume designer Bhanu Athaiya (who won the Oscar for Richard
Attenborough's 'Gandhi'). He also helped her writing the book. He
created and co-wrote Hollywood-based Hanuman Media's upcoming TV series
'Bollywood To Hollywood'. The entire project was written & co written
by Anil Sadaragani, Saba Moor-Doucette & Jeff Doucette. He has just
completed writing and filming a documentary for the Tibet India
Foundation on the 50-year struggle of Tibetan in exile for which he
interviewed His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama at his private residence
in Dharamsala. He also traveled to Oslo to interview the only living
member of the committee that bestowed the Nobel Peace Prize on His
Holiness in 1989. He also traveled to Poland to interview Mayor of
Wroclaw city that bestowed upon His Holiness a Lifetime Honorary
Citizenship award. When he took the leap into film writing and
filmmaking, his first short film, DIM, made it to the Official
Selection list at the New York Short Film Festival, the San Francisco
Short Film Festival and the Festival De Cine De Barcelona Internacional
in 2007. He has worked with Network 18's/ Viacom's online division as
Broadband Producer, having conceived, written, produced and directed
several shorts, web series and shows. He conceived and programmed a
short film festival titled 'The Buzz18 Short Film Festival' in
association with Pritish Nandy Communications (PNC), a leading film
studio in Bollywood. He has been Assistant Director to Bollywood
filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar on his recent film 'Fashion' as well as
worked on a Bollywood action film 'Prince' as Assistant Director. He
has written a Bollywood film titled 'Pyaar Happens', being directed by
filmmaker Hadi Ali Abrar. He also co-wrote and directed corporate films
for companies such as Education World Films, making corporate films in
the education sector. In 2010, he brought the Manhattan Short film
festival to Mumbai for the first time and served as Festival Director.