Ashim Ahluwalia

Who is Ashim Ahluwalia?

Ashim Ahluwalia is a film director and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut with the feature-length documentary John & Jane, which had a world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival and a European premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, and won him the 2005 National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director. This was followed by his first narrative feature film Miss Lovely which premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

Working outside the mainstream Bollywood film system, Ashim Ahluwalia is one of a new generation of Indian directors which prefers to eschew working with Hindi film stars. His unconventional films blur the lines between documentary and fiction. His short films have shown at the Tate Modern, the Centre Pompidou and at the Venice Architecture Biennale.