- Born in north India, Amit Mehra always wanted to be a filmmaker. He wrote his first film story at the age of 6, titled 'Mystery Of The Last Drop'.
After film schooling at XIC in Mumbai, he joined the Indian film industry (Bollywood) as an assistant director in 1991. He assisted on numerous English and Hindi film and commercials projects till 1994 before independently directing television, documentaries & commercials.
Today, 18 years hence, he has directed his first Short feature Ekanth, written an international English Feature film Karma:Crime,Passion & Reincarnation, created and directed several television series including popular 90's black humour sitcom Mat Halla Macha.
Amit Mehra heads a film production company Amp Angles, based in Mumbai.They produce Short narrative films and corporate advertising films. Amp Angles is developing their first feature film project for 2013 slate which will be directed by Amit. He is also involved in writing two feature film screenplays for other producers and developing his first book "To Err is Divine", which explores the dark side of Indian spiritual world.
- IMDb mini biography by: anonymous
- SpouseSemanti Sinha Ray(December 3, 1999 - present)
- Aspires to make the best science fiction film from India.
- Favorite filmmakers - Steven Spielberg, Alan Parker, Ridley Scott, Manoj. N. Shyamalan, Gulzar, Ramesh Sippy, Martin Scorsese, Francis ford Coppola and George Lucas.
- He wrote a thesis on Steven Spielberg as part of his final submission during his film schooling at XIC, Mumbai. His student film, The Shroud, on the theme of drug addiction was rated the best student film of the year 1989-1990.
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