Vishal Bhardwaj

Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, writer and composer, trained at the Hindu College of Delhi University. In the mid-1980s he began a fruitful career as a soundtrack composer, and in 1999 he made his debut behind the camera with the TV series Gubbare. In 2002 he directed his debut feature film, Makdee, and a year later he directed Maqbool, which in 2012 was selected by Seminci as part of a retrospective on ‘The Other Bollywood Cinema’. His subsequent filmography includes titles such as The Blue Umbrella (2005), Omkara (2006), the short film Blood Brothers (2007), Kaminey (2009), 7 Khoon Maaf (2011), Matru ki Bijlee ka Mandola (2013), Haider (2014), which won five International Indian Film Academy awards), Rangoon (2017) and Pataakha (2018).

Seminci - Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid