Saurav Sarangi is coming to Kos Minar 2026 on 20 March!
After graduating from the Presidency College, Kolkata, Sourav Sarangi joined the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune specializing in editing. His debut film Tusukatha received accolades from many leading international film festivals. Since then, he has been editing, writing, directing and producing in both fiction and nonfiction genres. He has worked as the chief editor in an Indo-Italian co-production in Rome and Naples. Sourav has also extensively worked in private television channels in India as chief programming director, during which time he supported and executed a number of productions on popular entertainment as well as social issue films which are still considered important works in the regional television industry. Sourav has served as jury in international film festivals. His award-winning documentary titled Bilal travelled to over fifty international festivals, winning eighteen top awards. His film Char…The No Man’s Island has been similarly winning accolades from around the world, and was selected in the prestigious Berlinale 2013 under the Forum section.
Paromita Vohra is coming to Kos Minar 2026 on 21 March!
Paromita Vohra is a filmmaker and writer whose films, online videos, art installations and television programming, explore feminism, gender, desire, urban life and popular culture. She is the director of several documentaries including Unlimited Girls, Q2P, Where’s Sandra?, Morality TV and the Loving Jehad, Partners in Crime and most recently, Working Girls. She has written the film Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters), the comic Priya’s Mirror, the play Ishqiya Dharavi Ishtyle and also wrote a weekly newspaper column ‘Paronormal Activity’ for 15 years. In 2015, she founded Agents of Ishq, a pioneering multimedia digital platform which has transformed conversations on sex, love and desire in India. In a world obsessed with binaries, her body of work has consistently championed multiplicity, rejecting neat categories between fiction and documentary, humour and critique, and the personal and the political.
Arun Bhattarai is coming to Kos Minar 2026 on 21 March!
Arun Bhattarai is one of the only independent documentary filmmakers from Bhutan, also formerly a TV director. His most recent film, Agent of Happiness, debuted at Sundance 2024, where it was a Grand Jury Prize nominee. It subsequently won awards at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Docs Against Gravity, the Margaret Mead Film Festival, the Biografilm festival, and was nominated for the IDA (International Documentary Association) awards. It also won the Bhutan National Film Award in 2025. His short documentary Mountain Man won the grand Jury prize for short films at the Oscar-qualifying DOC NYC 2023. His first feature length documentary The Next Guardian premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2017. Arun’s films have been theatrically released and broadcast all over the world. They have received support from The Sundance Film Institute, The Catapult Film Fund and The IDFA Berth Fund, among others. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and has also served as Jury at the Sydney Film Festival, 2024.
Borun Thokchom is coming to Kos Minar 2026 on 21 March!
Borun Thokchom is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and television journalist known for bringing complex, powerful stories to life. His debut film The Silent Poet won the National Award in 2011 and received recognition at several international film festivals. His documentary I RISE, produced by Films Division, has also earned multiple national and international awards, while his latest film Battlefield recently had its world premiere at the 56th International Film Festival of India (IFFI).
Samarth Mahajan is coming to Kos Minar 2026 on 22 March!
Samarth Mahajan is a Mumbai-based filmmaker, passionate about telling human stories that remain invisible to the mainstream. His work includes two national award-winning documentaries. The recent feature Borderlands explores lives defined by India’s borders, and the 2018 film The Unreserved captures stories from the general compartments of trains in the Indian Railways. Samarth’s films have been screened across six continents to favourable reviews, and have received broadcast and theatrical releases in India. His projects have featured in major film markets, including the Marché du Film, the business counterpart of the Cannes Film Festival. Recognized by IIT Kharagpur as a Young Alumni Achiever, Samarth’s commercial collaborations include brands like Vice Studios, Applause Entertainment, and Discovery+. He is currently working on his debut fiction short.
Khurram Muraad is coming to Kos Minar 2026 on 22 March!
Khurram Muraad is a poet, researcher, and documentary filmmaker based in South India. With a master’s degree in Linguistics from the University of Hyderabad, his work explores language, literature, and literary cultures.
Nirmal Chandar is coming to Kos Minar 2026 on 22 March!
Nirmal Chander has worked in the field of non-fiction film for the last three decades as an editor, director and producer. He has directed more than 10 documentaries and has over thirty editing credits. His films have travelled to many international festivals, winning multiple awards. Some of his films have been telecast on BBC Online and Indian TV channels such as NDTV and Doordarshan. He is the recipient of three National Film Awards in India, for excellence in cinema and his documentary Moti Bagh was an Oscar entry from India in 2019.
Bani Singh is coming to Kos Minar 2026 on 22 March!
Bani Singh studied at the National Institute of Design and after working in furniture and space design for a few years, specialised in Museum studies. She worked at the Virasat-e-Khalsa museum in Anandpur Sahib, Punjab, as a gallery visualiser and content interpreter. For the last couple of years, she was senior faculty at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology. Taangh (Longing) is her first film.