Rahat Kazmi

Rahat Kazmi was born on Jul 23, 1980 in India. Rahat Kazmi's big-screen debut came with Traffik - Season 1 directed by Alastair Reid in 1989, strarring Dilshad. Rahat Kazmi is known for 2 Band Radio directed by Saki Shah, Bilal Ahamad Bhagat stars as Musician and Neelu Dogra as Rubina. The upcoming new movie Rahat Kazmi plays is Lihaaf: The Quilt which will be released on Jul 31, 2021.

Rahat Kazmi is an internationally acclaimed film director and writer known for his feature film LIHAAF co-produced by Oscar winner Marc Baschet. His other significant work includes MANTOSTAAN, based on four stories of the most celebrated Urdu writer Saadat Hassan Manto, which had its world premiere at Cannes Film Festival (2016). and upcoming Indo-American film COUNTRY OF BLIND, based on a short story written by H. G. Wells with the same title.Rahat has won more than fifty international awards which including best director award at BAFTA by UK Asian Film festival in 2017 for MANTOSTAAN. Rahat was also nominated as best director in Bollywood ITA AWARDS (2022) alongside best known filmmakers of Bollywood Industry in year 2022 for his film LIHAAF.In 2016, His film IDENTITY CARD's many scenes were screened at European Parliament as reference to Kashmir's situation at that time. Apart from this, Golden Globe Winner filmmaker Siddiq Barmak, used his film as a reference in his masterclass on filmmaking.After having a significant theatrical release, most of his works are now streaming on various prominent OTT platforms including NETFLIX, DESNEY+HOTSTAR, AMAZON PRIME, VOOTSELECT, ZEE5 etc.