Director and Producer Anand Gandhi

Anand Gandhi’s latest conversation creates a stir on Twitter

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Twitterverse lauds Anand Gandhi’s latest conversation on Tumbbad and Ship of Theseus

Filmmaker Anand Gandhi who has impressed many with his amazing vision of storytelling is always at the receiving end of praises when it comes to his work. And while there are many aspiring filmmakers who look up to the Ship Of Theseus director, Anand also reciprocates to them with his enlightening views. Recently too, Anand's conversation around his award-winning films received some amazing feedback not just from the audience but also from actress and author Twinkle Khanna.

While we all know that it’s not very easy to impress Mrs Funnybones aka Twinkle Khanna, leaving her in admiration seemed to be a cakewalk for Anand. Twinkle who lauded Gandhi for his film Tumbbad also shared that his latest interview was quite enlightening. She also mentioned that the conversation about how the film was set in the era of Spanish Flu, made her morning with its leaps of wonderful insights. Time and again, Anand has left the film industry in admiration with his work. Many netizens and aspiring filmmakers also praised Anand’s views.

Anand who has an impressive line-up of films to his credit has put in some great research and understanding behind his films. No wonder his genius has been felicitated with several awards in festival circuits. Some of his other awards winning films along with Ship Of Theseus and Tumbbad include An Insignificant Man, Right Here Right Now and Continuum.  Other than making films, Anand has also been an innovator, systems researcher and co-creator of ElseVR, India's first virtual reality (VR) platform. He is also the founder/CEO of the Mumbai-based new media studio and systems think tank Memesys Culture Lab.

Batch of 2020: Anand Gandhi Motivates with his inspiring words in the documentary

Anand Gandhi features in an interesting documentary called Batch Of 2020 made to motivate youngsters on the educational front

Filmmaker Anand Gandhi who has often left the masses amazed with his style of films and documentaries has gone on to become a major source of motivation for the youngsters recently. The Tumbbad writer and producer who features in a one-hour documentary called Batch Of 2020 by Anto Philip’s Under 25 team exhibits light of positivity to all those students whose graduation year has suffered due to the pandemic.

In the documentary we see famous personalities from various walks of life motivating students, and telling them that it’s okay to mess up. Filmmaker Anand Gandhi also motivates when he urges the youth to make every failure a stepping stone to success. In the documentary, we see Anand talk about 'Qualities a graduating student must have in 2020' urging the youngsters to learn skills, equip themselves and to make every problem an employment. Well, it just wasn’t Anand’s motivational words, but also others sharing their fun and amazing experiences. Other than Anand Gandhi,  the documentary also features actress Deepika Padukone, actor Hrithik Roshan, film critic Anupama Chopra, renowned news anchor Faye D’souza and many more.

Anand Gandhi who has made some amazing films and thought-provoking documentaries, his short films and documentaries like Right Here Right Now, Continuum, An Insignificant Man have won several awards at various film festivals and his films Ship Of Theseus, as well as Tumbbad, also have been loved by the audiences. With his credible body of work, Anand truly fits the bill of being one of the most inspiring personalities of the country.

Batch Of 2020 is a thoughtfully curated one, preparing students in general about the ‘real world’, it brings to them conversations, speeches and information from some of the most famous and inspiring personalities in the country. From addressing the pressure of messing up on the educational front to pointing out on the importance of degrees and certificates the film is surely a must-watch for the younger generation. The film is now available on YouTube.

Link -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHifk4Ye4uQ&t=2284s

Filmmaker Anand Gandhi

Filmmaker Anand Gandhi receives an overwhelming response for his Ask Me Anything session

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With some interesting responses, filmmaker Anand Gandhi’s Ask Me Anything session becomes a hit

While director-producer Anand Gandhi has left the audiences spellbound with his amazing films and documentaries, the filmmaker has also been lauded for his work with several awards at various film festivals. Even though it’s been many years for few of his films, people still cannot get over the spectacle Anand Gandhi brought to them on-screen. And in order to reciprocate all the love that the audiences have been showering, Anand hosted an Ask Me Anything session on social media recently and the response he got was overwhelming.

Many have loved and been inspired by Anand's work, in fact, recently his film released in the OTT space post which his work has been viewed and appreciated furthermore. In the session, Anand who happily answered questions from fans also found out how some of his films have been watched by people over 20 times. Some other highlights from the session were where a fan asked him to react to filmmaker Kiran Rao calling him the filmmaker to watch out for a popular talk show. Responding to the same, Anand said, "Kiran is a vast visionary with profound generosity. I am grateful to have a friend like her in my life."

Apart from this, another fan quizzed him about his next project asking, "When will we see something like Tumbbad again... Big fan", and it was Gandhi's intriguing reply which got us really excited for his next. He replied, "What you will see next will be as different from Tumbbad as Tumbbad was from Ship of Theseus and that's my commitment to you!"

Anand who has produced or/and directed some amazing films and documentaries spoke about his projects like Ship Of Theseus, An Insignificant Man, Tumbbad, Right Here Right Now, Continuum in the session. Other than being a brilliant storyteller, Anand is also quite a great content creator and he has founded a new media studio called Memesys The Cultural Lab. And it is his prolific vision which has led to many of his films winning prestigious awards and titles in the festival circuit.

Anand Gandhi Gets Candid About His Upcoming Movie Emergence - A Science Fiction Story about a Novel Pandemic

Tumbbad creative director Anand Gandhi has been busy writing his next film - a screenplay unlike any other we have seen out of India before.

Titled Emergence, the film has been in development for the last five years. The story follows four scientists, as they race against a deadly pandemic to save the world from devastation. The screenplay has turned out to be eerily prophetic, as its parallels with our current reality are clear.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Gandhi has been making some revisions.

"[Earlier] we had planned to give information about the nature of a pandemic [through the film]. Now that we all know what it's like to be in the midst of one, I don't have to educate the audience about its nuances. So, we have had to make some changes in the script," reveals Gandhi.

Now the whole world has lived through a global pandemic. This has freed Gandhi to focus on the intended crux of his story. He elaborates, "I can directly take the audience to the understanding of host behaviour manipulation of a parasite. The idea that our microbiome informs our behaviour is better understood now than ever before. I want to use a pandemic setting as a deeper investigation into the nature of human identity and social behaviour."

Anand had earlier expressed his desire to cast Irrfan Khan in the film. Due to the untimely demise of the legendary actor, Gandhi now has plans of approaching Sushant Singh Rajput. He says, "It's unfortunate that I took so long to write it. I wish Irrfan could have been a part of it. Sushant is a dear friend, and I always work on the assumption that he will be part of what I create. I also have Australian actor Hugo Weaving in mind. Most importantly, I also need four women actors for the principal cast."

Initially set in 2020, the director has now decided to unfold the story in 2025. Emergence is set to go on floor next year.

FILMMAKER ANAND GANDHI IS OUT WITH A NEW RELEASE - THIS TIME, IT’S A GAME!

Mumbai | July 16, 2019: After the resounding success of Ship of Theseus, Anand Gandhi has discovered and brought new, explosive creators into the mainstream. His creative mentorship has resulted in breakout filmmakers and authors, behind the major successes of An Insignificant Man and Tumbbad. Anand has also introduced the country to disruptive mediums of storytelling with virtual reality and augmented reality.

His studio - Memesys Culture Lab - is now out with its latest flagship project - and this time, it’s a game. Created by game design genius, Zain Memon, SHASN is a unique political strategy board game. Five people fight a battle of wits over the two hour long game play - full of thrill, humour, manipulation and drama.

“We started this studio to brew new culture. It’s a unique place,” says Anand about his third wave media studio Memesys. Filmmakers, cognitive science researchers, policy thinkers and design thinkers work side by side at Memesys to create radically new stories and methods of telling them. “We do not dictate how a story ought to be told in advance - we decide on the most important and urgent conversations and dreams we want to bring to the world, and we let the form evolve.”

With their fascinating medium of choice, the studio hopes to answer a fundamental question: how does one make politics exciting for everyone? This game achieves that like nothing else before it. SHASN takes all the cutthroat scheming and competition of real-world politics, and delivers an intense, fun, roleplaying experience.

Each player is a politician, contesting a high-octane election that sees them capturing areas, hatching conspiracies, forming coalitions, and gerrymandering enemies. The game also launches with 350+ policy questions, handpicked to enlighten and entertain players. People get to interact with the most important issues of our world through exciting, action-packed gameplay over.

SHASN has already been hailed by reviewers as “the best thing to come out of American politics in a very long time” (Stephen Gulik, Everything Board Games) and as a “Really clever strategy game entrenched in a surprising political battleground” (Elan Lee, Exploding Kittens), and contains “all of the intrigue, plotting, backstabbing, and strategy of an actual cutthroat election” (Nick Meenachan, Board Game Brawl).

After running the largest ever successful crowdfunding campaign for an Indian film, Memesys Culture Lab is now launching SHASN on Kickstarter, July 16th.

Preview: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zainmemon/shasn-the-political-strategy-board-game-break-ks?ref=by7u40&token=4ca8bc6c

About Shasn

SHASN is an immersive political simulation. It’s a cutting-edge, interactive experience that condenses the reality and the nuances of a political campaign into a gripping two-hour simulation. As players learn to exploit resources, allies, and situations, they get a glimpse into the minds and motives of politics. 

The game has been designed by a team of filmmakers and new-media specialists with over a decade of experience in films, documentaries, television, and VR/AR. Our previous work (Ship of Theseus, Tumbbad, An Insignificant Man and ElseVR) has traveled to over 80 international film festivals including Cannes, TIFF (Toronto), Sundance and Venice