Nikhil Kamkolkar is a writer-filmmaker, who grew up in India and moved to the United States to study at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. After making his first feature film, “Indian Cowboy: A Love-Love Story” which he describes as a “romantic comedy with a south asian twist, he's focused on writing for TV, developing feature film scripts and web series, some of which have placed as semi-finalist and finalist in screenwriting competitions.
He's an alum of Stowe Story Labs, and has attend EFM-Berlin and Cannes Marche Du Film.
Watch his shorts and films on Amazon Prime in the US/UK/Germany and connect on instagram @nikhilnyc
The Sonnet Project
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Television
by Angela Rauscher (Comedy, Drama, History and Romance)
Director, Actor All 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets, each performed by a different actor in a New York City location.
The BOYE Division
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Film (short)
by Nikhil Kamkolkar (Comedy and Thriller)
Director, Writer, Visual effects, Editor, Producer Dirty Agents and office politics create drama for the ultra-secret CIA unit 'The BOYE Division,' tasked with recovering 'Bodies Of Your Enemies'
Strangers
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Film (short)
by Irina Varina (Drama)
Camera and Electrical Department A brief encounter of fears and hopes.
Fatal Encounters
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Television
(Documentary and Crime)
Actor "Fatal Encounters" tells the stories of people in the wrong place at the wrong time. It traces the doomed relationships between victim and killer as their paths intertwine, setting the stage for a series of events that lead to murder.
Indian Cowboy
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Film
by Nikhil Kamkolkar (Comedy and Romance)
Director, Actor, Writer Indian Cowboy is a tongue-in-cheek exploration of the idea of "true love" with a South Asian twist, playing upon both Bollywood and Hollywood Romantic Comedy conventions. Nick dreams of experiencing true love at its most glorious and with a decidedly happy ending. A cynical Sapna on the other hand believes that true love always leads to a tragic end as in Romeo & Juliet or Laila & Majnu. So when these star-crossed lovers meet and fall for each other, the quest for a mutually compatible ending to their love story begins! Featuring exciting new music by South Asian artists including Karsh Kale, Alms For Shanti, Karyshma with Falu, and Kam Dhillon. Written by Nikhil Kamkolkar
American Desi
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Film
by Piyush Dinker Pandya (Comedy, Drama and Romance)
Camera and Electrical Department College freshman Krishna Reddy, who has never cared for his Indian-American cultural heritage, looks forward to a new life on campus but is surprised to find that he has been assigned Indian roommates. Through his new experiences, he struggles to understand the side of himself he has always turned his back on in order to fit in. Written by Anonymous
University of Wisconsin - Madison