Ranadeep Bhattacharyya and Judhajit Bagchi are an award-winning filmmaker–artist duo and the co-founders of Yaanus Films, a Mumbai-based film and visual arts studio known for its bold, emotionally resonant storytelling. Working fluidly across fiction, documentary, experimental cinema, photography, and branded narratives, their work consistently explores themes of identity, desire, memory, and human connection.

Their films have been widely recognised at national and international platforms. Their experimental short Children of the Soil, a meditation on farmers’ suicides told through clay sculpture, received the National Film Award, while their provocative short Amen, addressing gender, sexuality, and child abuse, earned widespread critical acclaim. In the advertising space, the duo has won the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards (Dolphin) consecutively for their distinctive cinematic approach to brand storytelling.

Their recent feature film, Hold Me Tight, Set Me Free, currently in post-production, is an intimate, cross-cultural narrative set in Mumbai, exploring male vulnerability, companionship, and the quiet emotional dependencies that form in transient lives. Anchored in the shared months between two young foreign models navigating work, desire, and displacement in an unfamiliar city, the film examines how fleeting encounters can become sites of profound connection. Conceived and produced independently, the project continues their ongoing engagement with stories of quiet intensity and human fragility. With a restrained visual language and an observational, tactile approach to intimacy, the film reflects their commitment to personal cinema that lingers in silences, glances, and the unspoken ache of impermanence.

Judhajit and Ranadeep are members of the Institute for Experimental Arts (EU) and have served as jury chairs for the London Fashion Film Festival, reflecting their ongoing engagement with global visual culture. Alongside cinema, their fine art photography has been exhibited internationally, including with The Little Black Gallery, UK.

Rooted in the humanist traditions of Indian cinema while embracing contemporary forms and technologies, their work privileges emotional truth over spectacle. Through their films, they seek to illuminate the quiet, often unspoken lives that exist beneath the surface of everyday reality — stories where intimacy, silence, and inner transformation carry as much weight as narrative action.
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