Swaroop kanchi is a writer/Director based out of Bangalore and now ready with his latest Independent Indian English film project BENGALOORED which is now in the theatres & has opened to critical acclaim, great reviews & running successfully in India. Lost and seeking. This is the crux of the story of Bengaloored. Writer Babruvahana feels [...]

The TV9 Interview of Swaroop Kanchi at the Special preview of Hong Kong Dreaming in Bangalore on may31st 2008.

This is small Experimental Dance Project we made in mid march 2009. The Dance form is contemporary mixed with traditional art form. Performed by Veena Basavarajaih and Directed and conceptualized by Swaroop Kanchi. The version up is still a sort of a demo version with unfinished & demo sound. Synopsis: Kalpa in sanskrit is one aeon. Several [...]

Some pictures from my film “Acid”, a few shots in our production office in LA with Producer Alex Kazan, our actors Sabrina Bolin & chris Cunningham.

Supramanya (Supraman) is a young Indian boy living in rural India with his blind mother. By turns fascinated and intimidated by the adults in his village – who are a mixture of the hard-working, con-men and layabouts, his life is restricted by the fact that he must support his mother in her work, rather than [...]

Some of my photography. Lots more to come, but enjoy these for now. Recently I shot some pictures for a friend who was interested in getting into modeling. She wanted me to shoot it, I thought this was a good break from my writing, so took it up, all I was going to lose is [...]

Requiem is a story about a father who has lost in daughter. still re-living memories of her, he wanders looking for solace. This is the first video I shot with my brand new DVX 100, it was more like a test video I shot while on a trip to a small town In south India. [...]

Kanchi’s note: This is a Video I directed for a Documentary film about the Indian Film Industry made my Christian Frost an American Film Maker and Dreamworks/Paramount Employee, the Docu ends with christian himself a part of a Bollywood number. It’s a spoof of a very popular Bolly song actually & We shot it in [...]

This was my first feature film, I was 16 when I started to work on this film and I was 18, very angry, wrinkled and aged and very enlightened by the time this was done. 3 Big producers came & went, more than 800 actors auditioned, I got broke, cornered and ridiculed. But the film [...]

Acid is a film about two lovers who cant seem to find a way out of their drug addiction. They have the right intent & dreams and a desire to lead a normal life. But somehow stuck in a weave of bad karma doesnt help. We shot this film in LA. The film stars Chris [...]

Hong Kong Dreaming is an English Feature film Directed & produced by Swaroop Kanchi. Co-produced by Sandhya Madhu Rao & S.K.Raghupathy. It was shot in 2007 and completed in 2008. The film stars Fiona Man & Kai C wong. Fiona Man is a London born actress & an accomplished model of chinese origin. Kai C Wong is [...]

My article from the Hindu-Metro plus-dated 22 october 2008

I was definitely moved to write a review for this movie. This is probably the first time im writing one…atleast on this blog. ive taken apart several films in my lifetime, massacred a few for sure. I would definitely like to go for kill on this one. kill the director I mean. coz if guys [...]

What is needed is a passion to create, to do something, to create something. Ive been in bangalore for the last god knows how long..busting my nuts trying to find talent, and all i find is..wannabe actors whoring around with no idea what it takes to be an actor, what is needed of them, sending [...]