Over the weekend, I received the sad news that filmmaker Prashant Bhargava, the award-winning writer/director of the 2011 film Patang (The Kite), died of a heart attack Friday in Manhattan. He was 42.
Filmmaker, Artist Prashant Bhargava Dies at 42
Bhargava, a native of Chicago, was a promising filmmaker who primarily worked in music videos and commercials, including TV campaigns for HBO programs like The Wire, OZ, Rome.
His feature film directorial debut, Patang, followed six stories in Ahmedabad, India, all taking place during the country's largest annual kite festival. The film, which took seven years to make, premiered at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival, and was in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival.
