CAST & CREW

CAST | VIPIN SHARMA, SHARIB HASHMI

WRITTEN & DIRECTED | SUDEEP KANWAL

PRODUCER | SHLOK SHARMA & NAVIN SHETTY

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER | SAMEER KAMBLE

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY | MALAY PRAKASH

EDITOR | PARAMITA GHOSH

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS | AYESHA KHAN & SUMDARASH KANWAL

MUSIC | LAUREN BUCHTER

LOOK DESIGNER | SHRIKANT DESAL

SOUND DESIGN | NINAD LAD

COSTUME DESIGN | PREETI SHARMA

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR | SHILPA SRIVASTAVA

1st AD | AKASH BANERJI

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SHORT SYNOPSIS

Dhund is about a family’s disturbing past. Santokh shares a drink for the first time with his son. The conversation turns in to confrontation. What was lost? And how it was lost? These are the questions that get answered a decade after the partition of Punjab, India.What’s hidden, would come out.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

SUDEEP KANWAL

Sudeep Kanwal is an award-winning filmmaker, who graduated from City College of New York with a Masters in Film & Media Arts, specializing in writing & directing fiction. His thesis film, It Rises From the East won awards at Houston World fest (2008), Dam Short Film Festival(2008) & was nominated for the best short at New York’s Indo-American Arts Council FilmFestival (2009). His next short, Silent Wave played at 23 film festivals across the United States. It won numerous awards and nominations, including best editing at North West Ohio Film Festival (2012), Best Cinematography at We Like ‘Em Short Film Festival (2012), Best short film at Houston World fest (2013) & honorable mention at Trinidad Independent Film Festival(2013). DHUND (2018), a period drama based around partition premiered at the prestigiousMumbai Film Festival (MAMI) & won Large Short's Perfect 10 award. Currently Sudeep is finishing up post-production on his first feature, PRIVACY, a contemporary story set in Mumbai.