Varun Grover
Varun GROVER (1980, India) is a screenplay writer, standup comedian, and poet based in Mumbai, India. Masaan (2015), his debut feature as a screenplay writer, played in Un Certain Regard section at 68th Cannes Film Festival and went on to win FIPRESCI Jury as well as Promising Future prizes in the section. He is the lead writer and Executive Producer of Netflix India’s critically acclaimed first original series, Sacred Games (2018 – 2019). His first feature film as a director All India Rank (2023) had its world premiere as the closing film at IFFR 2023 and is now streaming on Netflix globally.
Filmography
kiss (2022, short), All India Rank (2023)
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Varun Grover op IFFR
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Kiss
Varun Grover | 17' | India | None
A young filmmaker gets in hot water with the censors over his new film. -
Four Slippers
Anurag Kashyap | 34' | India | World premiere
Sharply analytical psychosexual portrait of a thinking, desiring individual lost to hatred and communal polarisation. -
All India Rank
Varun Grover | 94' | India | World premiere
A witty, well-observed portrait of middle-class India’s aspirations and the attendant pressures on its children.