ABOUT SHLOK SHARMA

Shlok Sharma is a Mumbai based Indian filmmaker, writer and ad filmmaker.

 

He began his career assisting the master-storyteller Vishal Bhardwaj on The Blue Umbrella & Omkara. He then went on to assist one of the most influential Indian filmmakers, Anurag Kashyap on No Smoking, Dev D & That Girl In Yellow Boots. Shlok is also the Second Unit Director on Gangs Of Wasseypur I & II. 

 

He marked his debut as a filmmaker with the critically acclaimed Haraamkhor, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Shweta Tripathi. In 2017, along with his now business partner Navin Shetty, Shlok started his own company Fundamental Pictures. Thereon, under the same production house, he went on to direct his next feature Zoo, produced by Navin Shetty & Anurag Kashyap, which also happens to be the first Indian feature film to be shot entirely on an iPhone. 

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His third film, Two Sisters And A Husband, also produced by Navin Shetty & Anurag Kashyap, marked it World Premiere in the Tribeca Film Festival and is gearing up for release.

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A food-lover, an avid traveller and a keen observer, Shlok finds it especially engaging to deconstruct the matters of human heart & mind juxtapositioned against the society’s will to embrace its greys.