Career
He has also written and directed several critically acclaimed plays and popular television shows. His second film Continuum (2006) was co-directed with Khushboo Ranka. Continuum is a montage of simple stories from everyday life, popular culture and folklore that explore "the continuum of life and death, of love and paranoia, of trade and value, of need and invention, of hunger and enlightenment".
Anand Gandhi"s writing career began in 2000 with the emergence of the daily soap opera genre in India.
He wrote dialogue for the first eighty-two episodes of a popular show called Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. Kyunki.. and Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii, for which he wrote screenplay, are the longest running television shows in the history of Indian television
He is often quoted for his disgust over the aesthetics of Indian television, including the shows he wrote foreign He moved away from his television career to write and direct critically acclaimed plays, like Sugandhi, Pratyancha, Kshanotsav, Na and Janashtaru.
Almost all his work has been produced for the alternative one-act theatre.
He has written only one mainstream play, Chal Reverse Ma Jaiye in Gujarati. His first feature-length film, Ship of Theseus set in Cairo, Stockholm and Mumbai, premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was discovered as the "hidden gem" of the festival"s selection of films from Mumbai that year. lieutenant was given a Special Mention by the Sutherland Jury "for tickling our intellect and showing us rarely-seen facets of Indian life".
Critic Derek Malcolm put it on the list of "films that changed our lives", made to celebrate the centenary of The Critics" Circle.
He is currently co-directing and producing a new period-thriller called Tumbad, with his production company Recyclewala laboratories He is overseeing the production of a crowdfunded documentary called Proposition for a Revolution on the rise of the Aam Aadmi Party and the anti-corruption protests in India.
He has announced that he will now be producing content for virtual reality under his new banner Elsevr. He was born into a Vaishnav Gujarati family and spoke Gujarati for the first ten years of his life.
He has always identified himself as thoroughly non-religious and atheistic.
He loves Gujarati poetry, including that of Ramesh Parekh, Mareez, and Shekhadam Abuwala. He writes poetry but does not publish lieutenant