Sandeep A Varma

Sandeep A Varma is a Hindi Film Director and Writer. He was born in the year 1969, in New Delhi, India. He is better known for the movie Manjunath, released in 2014. It was a biopic based on the real story of an Indian Oil Sales Officer and IIML graduate Manjunath Shanmugam, who was killed by a mafia for exposure of corruption in the Oil Sector. He completed his early education at St. Columbus School, Delhi, India, and later completed his B.E. from Birla Institute of Technology and Science in 1991, and an MBA at FMS College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India, in 1993. He has directed and written various Television Commercials and short films, such as Street Children and Water Conservation. These short films were screened at the huge Kerala International Film Festival and at Philadelphia Short Film Festival in the year 2003.

He worked as a writer and director for a feature film Manjunath, a biopic, in the year 2014, and a short film The Virgins Click to look into! >> Read More... , in the year 2016. The films he directed are Kahin Door in 2001, Manjunath in 2014, The Virgins in 2016, Kahanibaaz in 2018, and The Disguise in 2019. His film Kahanibaaz was a short digital thriller film that was nominated as a semi-finalist in the Pune Short Film Festival, and the Los Angeles Cine Fest. He started Film board in 2017, with Rajesh Butta, and Sandeep is the co-founder of Filmboard movies. He won the Screen Award for Best Screenplay for Manjunath in 2015, Ritwik Ghatak Award for The Disguise at the South Asian Film Festival in Kolkata, and was nominated for Screen Awards for the most promising Debut Director for the film Manjunath in the same year. His movie The Disguise won a total of twelve awards. He also has directed and written for an upcoming Web Series – Us & Them, with JAR pictures.