Ashish Dawar

Stray (2017)
Film (Drama and Drama) Camera and Electrical Department Fifteen year-old Ben Garber has a secret. A secret which leads him to infiltrate the household of a family in a neighboring town.

(Out)caste (2017)
Film (Drama and Drama) Camera and Electrical Department When a manual scavenger cannot continue her work, her 11-year-old daughter picks up where the mother left off.

Gold Fortune (2017)
Film (Drama and Drama) Cinematographer Inspired by a true crime story. A 25-year-old Chinese young man, Yuzhong Chan has been working in various Chinese restaurant kitchens since he illegally entered the United States in the hope of a better life. As he moves to Los Angeles to seek legal identity through asylum fraud, he meets and falls in love with a waitress at his cousin's restaurant. When Yuzhong receives a phone call from his asylum lawyer that he missed his court hearing, where would the tide of fortune take him to?

Ballad of Rustom (2016)
Film (Drama) Camera and Electrical Department Rustom works in a small government office in the countryside. Life for Rustom is wandering from place to place in the small town, spending time with Kapil who works on the suburban trains, living with the eccentricities of his boss, and being magically transported into his imaginary other world in the far reaches of this beautiful and lonely countryside which maybe undergoing a quiet upheaval that may disturb it's dark and mysterious worlds forever. Written by Anonymous

Oruthal (2016)
Film (Drama) Cinematographer When you hurt a common man and deny justice....

Seat Open (2016)
Film (Drama and Thriller) Cinematographer A retired poker champion attempts to rescue his son from an underground poker mess by playing one last time. Can he do it against a strong nexus of the current poker mafia?

Lost and Found (2016)
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Crab Catchers (2016)
Film (Documentary and Drama) Producer It's a queer sneak peek into the life of Dharmendra Mahtre, a crab catcher by profession. His ingenious methods, quirky tricks and special techniques of catching crabs metaphors his own philosophies developed over a lifetime of coastal living against the backdrop of this megacity called Mumbai. Written by Ashish Dawar

Under the Same Sun (2015)
Film (Drama) Cinematographer Under the Same Sun explores the mind of a confused and orphaned young man, Karim Jamal, who accidentally falls into the hands of a group of Hindu and Muslim village children in the medieval town of Jaisalmer, near the border of India and Pakistan. As the young boys welcome and nurture their injured desert guest, Karim soon discovers the true meaning of brotherhood and compassion, which forces him to rethink his true purpose in life. Written by Anonymous

Kandathai Sollugiren (2015)
Film (Drama) Cinematographer 'Vision Unfolded' premise deals with the art, culture, the kith and kin, the joys and sorrows, love and the family bonding of a particular sector of people.

Jackpot (2013)
Film (Comedy and Thriller) Camera and Electrical Department Jackpot is a fast-paced thriller con, with sharp comic one-liners and crazy characters, set entirely in Goa against the backdrop of casino boats. The film goes back and forth in time, capturing one Goan monsoon of Full Jhol. It's a card game between the players in the con. Who will come out Aces and who will end up being the Joker?

Horizon (2009)
Film (Drama, Comedy, Drama and Romance) Camera and Electrical Department Lucas, a jobless, depressed, 31 year old is looking for something in life that excites him. He ends up in mid-coast Maine where the ocean meets the sea. Sandra, a young, excitable, mysterious girl, pops in and out of Lucas' life hoping to stir his interest. They meet at the harbor in the most unexpected of ways from there their emotional journey takes off. Through meetings on the dock, to breakfast at the local café, to sitting under a tree in a field, Lucas is taken out of his element while Sandra finally feels understood. Written by Lee Feller

I Am (2009)
Film (Drama, Drama, Musical and Romance) Producer Like anyone else, Melissa has a perfect world of dreams. In contrast there is the wakeful world where she is fighting a battle of resigned acceptance. Which one of the two worlds is real? What if there is no obvious answer? Struggling with this obscurity, will Melissa ever confront the truth? Does there lie a whole another state of consciousness, that has a resolution to the mystery of - what is reality? Written by Ashish Dawar

Hitchhikers (2009)
Film (Drama, Adventure, Comedy and Romance) Second Unit Director or Assistant Director Chris retraces his father's footsteps twenty years after his father left him. But his long search for closure is interrupted by a sudden connection.