I was born in the banlieue of Paris in 1986, to a Vietnamese Mother and a Pakistani father. I moved to London at the age of six, a city I’ve come to call home.

I am the youngest son of my late father, AJ Kardar, the first filmmaker from Pakistan to submit a Film to the Academy Awards in 1960. He went on to achieve international festival recognition.

My Vietnamese family are part of the French diaspora that fled the war in Vietnam in 1960's and have now settled in Paris.

Having graduated in Film Studies at Queen Mary University in 2007, I went on to pursue my other passion of martial arts, and competed for my adopted country of the UK in international tournaments and fulfilling my ambitions of an athlete by achieving European and World honors.

I have worked in Media and Communications in various sporting and corporate institutions, until I resurrected my family’s old trading name, Kardar Studios, initially set up by my father and his brother in pre-partition India, Mumbai. Keen to follow my family’s cinematic tradition, I am now pursuing a career in filmmaking.

It is with my diverse heritage and a fascination with the visual medium of cinema that I am passionate about stories that reflect my multicultural experience and that explore the intersections of identity, faith, and culture.