Hardik Mehta

Mehta graduated from AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Milia Islamia, with a degree of M.A in Mass Communication. He spent the next few years working with some of the most renowned figures from the Indian film industry such as Dev Benegal, Vikramaditya Motwane and Vikas Bahl – as an Assistant director and script-continuity supervisor.^[1]

In 2015, he went on to direct his own documentary, Amdavad Ma Famous (2015), set against the backdrop of the kite-flying festival in Gujarat that won him the Swarna Kamal, National Award for Best Non-Feature Film in 2016.

In 2017, Hardik wrote and directed a short film, The Affair which was presented by Drishyam Films. Prolonging his association with the Lootera director, Vikramaditya Motwane, Mehta also co-wrote the script for the 2017 survival-thriller, Trapped.

His debut feature film Kaamyaab premiered at the 2018 Busan International Film Festival and later it was picked by superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who co-produced the film under his production house Red Chillies Entertainment along with Drishyam Films. Kaamyaab released theatrically on March 6, 2020 to rave reviews and is now available on Netflix worldwide.

Mehta has also co-written the critically acclaimed Amazon Prime Video series, Paatal Lok.

His next directorial film Roohi, starring Rajkummar Rao, Varun Sharma and Janhvi Kapoor released in March 2021 and in the same year Hardik was the director and showrunner for Netflix series Decoupled starring R.Madhavan and Surveen Chawla.

In 2024, Hardik directed the first film 'An unSuitable Girl' for the anthology Love Storiyaan produced by Karan Johar's Dharmatic entertainment and Amazon Prime Video. The docu-drama series is inspired from the Instagram page India Love Project and was created by Dharmatic producer Somen Mishra. The series has done exceptionally well -critically and in terms of numbers on Prime Video.

Hardik is married to writer-producer Akanksha Tewari.