Kranti is currently doing the post-production of his feature film Gandhi Of The Month with the legendary American Actor Harvey Keitel (Reservoir Dogs, The Piano, Dusk to Dawn, Ulysses' Gaze, Taxi Driver, Mean Streets) and Ayush Khedekar (little Jamal from Slumdog Millionaire) in the lead.

It is about a secular expatriate American schoolmaster (65) in India who struggles to protect his students and school from anti-Gandhian fundamentalist forces. It deals with the religious violence in a self-proclaimed secular nation.

Producer: Sanjay Singh (Udaan), Screenplay: Kranti Kanade & Sagar Haveli
DOP: Baris Ozbicer (Bal/Honey), Sound: Resul Pookutty (Slumdog Millionaire)
Music: Michael Brook (Into The Wild, The Fighter), Editor: Jo Francis (In The Valley Of Elah, The Next Three Days), Executive Producers: Shyam Tallamraju , Jiten Singh & Sean Thomas.

The screenplay has won the IFFLA Film Fund development grant instituted by the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. The grant jury included acclaimed screenwriters Gill Dennis (Walk The Line), Anurag Kashyap (Dev D, Black Friday) and Sooni Taraporevala (Salaam Bombay, Mississippi Masala, The Namesake). Dennis noted: "This script is haunting, gripping, and gritty. Stunningly done, beautifully good, it dissects the great mess of our humanity with equal measures of humor and horror, while capturing the hectic multiplicity of India."

The first draft was mentored by Oscar winner Danis Tanovic (No Man's Land), screenwriters Bernd Lichtenberg (Good Bye Lenin!), Olivia Hetreed (Girl with a Pearl Earring) and Anjum Rajabali (Rajneeti) at the Goa Screenwriters' Lab by NFDC.

His first feature film MAHEK premiered in official selection at the London Film Festival to affectionate reviews. Invited to many festivals around the world, it was nominated for the Best Children's Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Australia. It is included in the University syllabus at the Otterbein College, US as part of their India studies.

Kranti, 32, has studied filmmaking at UCLA and FTII. His short film CHAITRA won several National Film Awards and was India's official entry to the Student Academy Awards. He works from Pune and Los Angeles. He is the co-founder of an NGO that works for the destitute. So far it has rehabilitated 218 children.

"I wish the gap between the dreams of a society and the dreams of an individual reduce. It is difficult for me to be happy if everybody else isn't."