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Abhimanyu Kanodia is an award-winning film director and writer, known for making Kathakaar (2016) as his debut short film, a documentary featurette titled Main Thansu Dur Nahi (2024) and a web series titled Firsts: Season 5 (2021) for Dice Media. His filmography further includes Jangle Bells (2015), Beyond The Tides (2015), Queen Of Hearts (2016), MTV Abhineta (2017), Rajesh Deewana (2017), Truce (2019), Tape (2020), Sau Gram Zindagi (2020), Noor-e-Mayoor (2022) and many successful Music Videos like Tum Bhi Na (2016), Kahe Koi Aansoo (2020), Tera Kya Hota x Nene Lekunte Mashup (2020) and O Bandeya (2020). He has also worked as a director on various TV Commercials & Brand films.
His short film Kathakaar, featuring Piyush Mishra in the lead role has achieved a rare feat of being a Semi-Finalist in the Foreign Narrative category of the 43rd Annual Student Academy Awards, Oscars. Among 1,749 films that were submitted to the Student Academy this year, Kathakaar made it in roughly the top 5% of all films submitted.
His short films have been selected in over 60 international and national film festivals, winning over 25 awards. The combined YouTube, Facebook and Instagram views of all his work stands at more than 30 Million. He has an experience of directing 50+ film productions that include web show, short films, documentaries, music videos & commercials.
Abhimanyu has successfully collaborated with renowned film and media personalities like Piyush Mishra, Radhika Apte, Manoj Bajpai, Darshan Jariwala, Smita Jayakar, Namit Das, Monali Thakur, Sumeet Vyas, Manasi Parekh, Vipin Sharma, Vatsal Sheth, Mukti Mohan, Smita Bansal, Saurabh Dubey, Deepti Devi, Priya Banerjee and Shruti Vyas on various projects. He has worked with Mr. Subhash Ghai's film production company Mukta Arts Ltd, MTV India, Voot, Hotstar, Dice Media, The Zoom Studios, Scroll India, Songfest India, Hungama, Being Indian, Looking China on various projects.
