★ HOW OLD IS ANAND GANDHI?
Anand Gandhi is 45 years old, born September 26, 1980 in IN · Libra.
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About
Anand Gandhi directed Ship of Theseus, the National Film Award–winning debut that premiered at Toronto International Film Festival. Born in India on 26 September 1980, Gandhi is a filmmaker, entrepreneur, and founder of Memesys Culture Lab. His second feature, Tumbbad, opened Critics' Week at Venice Film Festival in 2018. As a Libra, he balances artistic innovation with systems thinking across film, VR, and board games.
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Biography
Anand Gandhi (born Anand Modi) is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, and entrepreneur who emerged as a significant voice in contemporary cinema through his systems-thinking approach to storytelling. His debut feature Ship of Theseus premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the National Film Award for Best Picture. The film established Gandhi's signature style: philosophical inquiry grounded in visual precision.
His second feature, Tumbbad—on which he served as creative director, executive producer, and screenwriter—opened the Critics' Week at the 75th Venice Film Festival and received widespread critical acclaim upon its October 2018 release. Beyond narrative cinema, Gandhi produced the nonfiction thriller An Insignificant Man (2017), directed by Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla, documenting the rise of India's Aam Aadmi Party; Vice acquired international distribution rights.
Gandhi's creative reach extends across media. Actor-producer Ajay Devgn acquired rights to his play Beta Kaagdo, adapted into the feature film Helicopter Eela, starring Kajol. He co-created ElseVR, India's first VR platform for urgent, extraordinary digital storytelling, and produced the board games SHASN and SHASN: Azadi. As founder and CEO of Memesys Culture Lab, a Mumbai-based new media studio and systems think tank, Gandhi merges innovation with cultural strategy.
Born 26 September 1980 in India, Gandhi embodies the Libra trait of balancing aesthetic vision with intellectual inquiry. His work across screenwriting, direction, production, and systems design reflects a commitment to using cinema and emerging platforms as instruments for choice-creation and resilience-building. His numerological life-path 8 aligns with his entrepreneurial and institutional leadership. Most recently, he unveiled his next project, Emergence, set in a post-pandemic world exploring how human ingenuity builds collective resilience.
★ ORIGIN
Before Fame
Before Ship of Theseus, Gandhi worked as a screenwriter and media producer, building the conceptual and production infrastructure that would define his later features. He founded Memesys Culture Lab, establishing himself as both an institutional innovator and creative practitioner in Mumbai's media ecosystem. His early work in systems thinking and media production provided the foundation for his later breakthroughs in cinema and emerging technologies.
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Trivia
- Ship of Theseus was Gandhi's feature directorial debut and won the National Film Award for Best Picture upon its premiere at Toronto International Film Festival.
- Tumbbad opened the Critics' Week section at the 75th Venice Film Festival—a rare honor for an Indian film.
- Gandhi is the co-creator of ElseVR, India's first virtual reality platform designed to bring 'extraordinary and urgent stories' to digital audiences.
- He was born Anand Modi and later adopted the surname Gandhi.
- Gandhi delivered an INK Talk in 2013 exploring how memes function in choice-creation, connecting cognitive science to filmmaking.
- He served as creative director of the VR chapter at the 48th International Film Festival of India while on its steering committee.
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Numerology
LIFE-PATH NUMBER
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Driven and business-minded. Anand Gandhi extend their craft into ownership: labels, production companies, brand lines.
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- Anand Gandhi is 45 years old (born September 26, 1980).
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- Anand Gandhi is a Libra, born September 26, 1980.
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- Anand Gandhi was born in 1980, the year of the Metal Monkey.
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