Kumar Shahani, an Indian writer and filmmaker, was born in Larkana, Sindh, in 1940.
Kumar Shahani is a well-known Indian film director and screenwriter best known for his parallel cinema features Maya Darpan, Khayal Gatha, and Kasba. Due to his commitment to formalism, and the reputation of his first feature, Maya Darpan, as one of Indian cinema's first formalist films, he is frequently grouped alongside similar stylistic filmmakers such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Jacques Rivette by critics and film enthusiasts.
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