15 Facts About Sridhar Rangayan

Sridhar Rangayan is an Indian filmmaker who has made films with special focus on queer subjects.

Sridhar Rangayan is a Founder Member and Trustee of The Humsafar Trust, the first gay NGO in India, along with Ashok Row Kavi.

Sridhar Rangayan is the founder Festival Director of KASHISH Pride Film Festival that is held in Mumbai, India every year for past 14 years, is first ever queer film festival to be held at a mainstream theater - PVR Cinemas, Cinemax and Liberty Cinema.

Sridhar Rangayan was elected as Regional Director of Interpride which is a network of more than 160 Gay Pride organisations from more than 35 countries in 162 cities, dedicated to LGBT Pride parades and other events.

Sridhar Rangayan is a graduate of National Institute of Technology Karnataka and has a Post-graduate in Design from Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay, specializing in Visual Communication.

Sridhar Rangayan worked with the National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped as Mass Media Officer and then for a while as a textile designer for an export firm, designing tapestries and carpets.

Sridhar Rangayan wrote the screenplay and dialogues for Kalpana Lajmi's serial The Awakening and was the Associate Director for the serial Dawn.

From 1999 to 2002, Rangayan scripted and directed several television series like Rishtey and Gubbare for, Kagaar for and Krisshna Arjun, Kahani Jurrm Ki for.

Sridhar Rangayan is perhaps the only production company in India to specialize in production of gay themed films.

Sridhar Rangayan has directed and produced the feature film Evening Shadows which had its world premiere at Mardi Gras Film Festival, Sydney in February 2018.

Sridhar Rangayan was named to the jury for the Teddy Award for LGBT films at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival.

Sridhar Rangayan has served on the jury of prestigious film festivals Mardi Gras Film Festival, Movies That Matter Festival, The Netherlands, Iris Prize, UK, Image+Nation LGBT dilm festival, Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Outfest, USA.

Sridhar Rangayan was chosen as one of the Grand Marshals at the 2016 Montreal pride parade, where he led the pride parade along with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Apart from filmmaking, Sridhar Rangayan is actively involved with human rights issues and the disability sector.

Sridhar Rangayan has made short film on cancer intervention and rehabilitation as well as several films on hearing impairment.