page_title: Ashvin Kumar
hierarchical_section_title: Ashvin Kumar
caption_attribution_description: English: Ashvin Kumar shooting for his film Dazed in Doon (2010) in The Doon School, India for its Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
context_page_description: Ashvin Kumar is India's youngest Oscar-nominated and two-time national award-winning filmmaker, who has written, directed and produced a wide range of films, including India's only Oscar nominated short film Little Terrorist, documentary Inshallah, Kashmir and Inshallah Football; feature-length thriller The Forest; coming-of-age tale Dazed in Doon and his debut film Road to Ladakh starring Irrfan Khan.
  In 2005, he became the youngest Indian writer/director with an Academy Award Oscar® nomination, Ashvin is also the first Indian to be nominated at the European Film Academy with his film Little Terrorist which has been part of official selections to over 130 film festivals, winning awards in 25 of them, including the British Academy of Film and Television LA.
  Ashvin faced a roadblock with Indian censors for his film No Fathers in Kashmir which initially received an 'A' certificate. He wrote an open letter to Prasoon Joshi, the director of CBFC, as well as appealed to the FCAT. The film got released with a U/A certificate on 5 April 2019.
context_section_description: Ashvin Kumar is India's youngest Oscar-nominated and two-time national award-winning filmmaker, who has written, directed and produced a wide range of films, including India's only Oscar nominated short film Little  Terrorist (2004), documentary Inshallah, Kashmir (2012) and Inshallah Football (2010); feature-length thriller The Forest (2012);  coming-of-age tale Dazed in Doon (2010) and his debut film Road to Ladakh (2004) starring Irrfan Khan.
  In 2005, he became the youngest Indian writer/director with an Academy Award Oscar® nomination, Ashvin is also the first Indian to be nominated at the European Film Academy with his film Little Terrorist which has been part of official selections to over 130 film festivals, winning awards in 25 of them, including the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) LA.
  Ashvin faced a roadblock with Indian censors for his film No Fathers in Kashmir which initially received an 'A' certificate. He wrote an open letter to Prasoon Joshi, the director of CBFC, as well as appealed to the FCAT. The film got released with a U/A certificate on 5 April 2019.
caption: Ashvin Kumar filming Dazed in Doon at The Doon School (2010)
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