Udai Singh Pawar

Udai Singh Pawar is a filmmaker and screenwriter based in Mumbai, India.

Most recently, Pawar was the Writer and the Director of the Netflix Original Feature Film Upstarts, which has been streaming since October 2019.

Before becoming an independent Director, he had been the Associate Director of the Akshay Kumar-starrer Airlift, made by Raja Krishna Menon, and even earlier, had been the Chief/1st Assistant Director to veteran film director Sudhir Mishra for five years, on multiple projects, such as the Irrfan Khan-starrer Yeh Saali Zindagi and the Arjun Rampal-starrer Inkaar.

Pawar is a Physics graduate from IIT Kanpur, with a background blending technology and art. Before shifting to film-making in 2009, Udai had worked extensively in technology research, with multiple patents and publications to his name.