Dhruva Harsh

Dhruva Harsh is an Indian filmmaker, director, and writer known for his impactful storytelling in Hindi cinema. With a diverse body of work that blends emotional depth and artistic vision, he has helmed notable films such as Honourable Mention (2015), Harshit (2018), Do I Exist: A Riddle (2019), The Last Sketch (2020), and Elham (2023), steadily carving a distinctive space for himself in contemporary Indian filmmaking.

Dhruva Harsh is an acclaimed writer-director whose work spans short films, feature cinema, documentaries, theatre, and poetry. He made his directorial debut in 2015 with Honourable Mention, adapted from Neelum Saran Gour’s Song Without End and Other Stories, earning widespread appreciation and the Best Screenplay Award at the Rolling Reels International Film Festival, Hyderabad.

In 2018, he wrote and directed Harshit, starring Satyajeet Dubey and inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The film later premiered on Amazon Prime (2019) and Disney+ Hotstar (2020), received multiple festival selections, and won him Best Director at the International Short Film Festival, Pune.

His 2019 short Do I Exist: A Riddle screened at prominent platforms including the Pondicherry International Film Festival, International Film Festival of Shimla, Jaipur International Film Festival, and was an official selection at the Panorama International Film Festival, Tunisia. In 2020, he directed the feature documentary The Last Sketch, portraying the lives of hand-rickshaw pullers in Kolkata.

In 2023, Dhruva directed Elham, which became the only Indian children’s film selected at the 24th Rainbow International Film Festival, London, and premiered at the 21st Dhaka International Film Festival. The same year, he wrote and directed his second feature, Parable, inspired by Plato’s allegory, offering a compelling exploration of academia and institutional politics.

Prior to filmmaking, Dhruva built a strong foundation in theatre with plays including The Burning Instinct (2012), Che – A Romantic Revolutionary (2013), and Cigarette and Shakespeare (2014). He is also the author of a Hindi poetry collection titled Aye Zindagi Tu Ret To Nahi.