Karan Kandhari is an

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filmwriter and

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. In 2009, Kandhari directed the

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''Hard Hat'', a melancholy tale of three

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s who meet on a cash-in-hand

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job in London. The film was selected for numerous

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around the world, winning the Audience Award at the Rushes

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Critical response

"There is evidence of better things to come from British Asian directors, as Karan Kandhari demonstrates with Bye Bye Miss Goodnight. Offering a uniquely
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snapshot of modern urban India, this visually ambitious road movie belies its modest budget to chronicle the unlikely encounter between a daydreaming Mumbai cabby and a pregnant,
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free spirit." - David Parkinson, BBC Film

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* English film directors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Kandahar 21st-century Indian film directors Indian screenwriters {{India-film-director-stub