Arun Petrichor Bharali is an Anglo-Indian film director, producer and screenwriter.
Education
Bharali trained initially as a musician, receiving a starred first from York University, United Kingdom, before completing a Doctor of Philosophy in Music Composition at the University of California, San Diego under the supervision of Brian Ferneyhough and Rand Steiger.
Career
He left academia to pursue his interest in film and worked his way up as a freelance script supervisor and occasional reader with United Kingdom based companies such as Working Title, Tiger Aspect and the British Broadcasting Corporation. He made his feature directorial debut with an English language Bollywood themed satire entitled "Lookalike". and was released in North America under the title Bolly Double. The company has bases in the United Kingdom, United States and India and focuses on the development and production of English language genre films. The first production under the new banner, United States set thriller Skyline Drive, is set to begin principal photography in 2016.