Harshavardhan Kulkarni
Harshavardhan Kulkarni is an Indian bollywood film writer and director. He is the son of award winning Kannada poet littérateur Dr.GV(Jeevi) Kulkarni. His directorial debut feature film Hunterrr was released in 2015.[1][2]
Harshavardhan was born and raised in Mumbai and trained as a petrochemical engineer at Pune University(MIT Kothrud). All through engineering he was busy writing, directing and acting in plays including winning the prestigious Purushottam Karandak award.
He began his career as a script writer for the television series AAHAT for SONY TV. He was also the assistant director for a few episodes. During the time he decided he wanted to do a course in film making and joined the FTII specialising in Editing. Alongwith a couple of his FTII classmates he formed the production company Tailormade Films upon graduation which was involved in a whole bunch of promotional films, audio visuals and ad films. His first foray into short feature writing was when he wrote THE CHOSEN ONE for STAR One directed by Vinil Matthew. This partnership collaborated subsequently on HASEE TOH PHASEE very successfully which was Harshavardhan's feature film debut(as far as release is concerned though HUNTERRR had been made and was awaiting an exhibitor for release). Between THE CHOSEN ONE and HTP he also made a short film on tourism for MTDC that fetched him the National Award for Best Film on Tourism.
Off late Harshavardhan has been on a spree of making ad films for various clients notable among them being the trilogy for Amazon's Mom Be A Girl Again campaign. He has also garnered accolades for a recently concluded Lenovo campaign in which a girl aspires to be an astronaut and travel to Mars.