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name: "Nishikant Kamat"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nishikant-kamat"
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imdb_id: "nm1723225"
tmdb_id: 229252
wikidata_id: "Q13118344"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "17 June 1970"
died: "17 August 2020"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:33:09.647378+00:00"
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# Nishikant Kamat

## Identity

Nishikant Kamat

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nishikant-kamat
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nishikant-kamat
- **IMDb ID:** nm1723225
- **TMDB ID:** 229252
- **Wikidata ID:** Q13118344
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishikant_Kamat, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13118344, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1723225/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/229252

Director. Born 17 June 1970 in Malvan, Maharashtra, India. Died 17 August 2020.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 17 June 1970, Malvan, Maharashtra, India
- **Died:** 17 August 2020
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishikant_Kamat, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13118344, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1723225/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/229252

## Fi1m on Nishikant Kamat

> Nishikant Kamat makes ordinary people under pressure worth following, especially when their choices trouble us. We recommend *Drishyam* for his patient handling of suspense, with a warning that the careful preparation can take too long.

*Drishyam* (2015) spends time on how a family builds an alibi while the police press for answers. Kamat takes the planning seriously enough for us to follow it, making the practical details central to the suspense. We were uncomfortable at how much we wanted the cover-up to hold, because each piece of preparation gave us another reason to hope the family would succeed. Ajay Devgn and Tabu keep the film tense even when the plotting slows. It is a good thriller, with a pacing problem that matters.

That concern with people pushed too far runs through a career that moved between Marathi, Tamil and Hindi films. His Marathi debut, *Dombivali Fast* (2005), follows a middle-class man frustrated by Mumbai life; he remade it in Tamil as *Evano Oruvan* (2007). His Hindi debut, *Mumbai Meri Jaan* (2008), uses interlinked stories responding to the 2006 Mumbai train bombings. He worked with John Abraham on *Force* (2011), and with Irrfan Khan on the vigilante drama *Madaari* (2016).

Remakes, including *Force* and *Drishyam*, became a recurring part of his Hindi work. We would not dismiss the results merely because the stories had been told before. Kamat’s work with Devgn in *Drishyam* keeps the star grounded in everyday realism, which helps make the family’s predicament credible. Without that credibility, the alibi-building would be an elaborate exercise we had little reason to care about.

The difficulty is knowing when we have understood enough. Editor Aarif Sheikh lets *Drishyam*’s alibi-building register clearly, yet the 163-minute running time leaves stretches in which preparation feels like delay. The music credited to Sameer Phaterpekar and Vishal Bhardwaj adds tension where the mechanics are already doing the work. Kamat does not always trust how closely we are following him. Start with *Drishyam*, provided a family thriller with some unnecessary waiting still sounds like a good evening.

## Biography

Nishikant Kamat (17 June 1970 – 17 August 2020) was an Indian film director and actor. He made his directorial debut with the Marathi film *Dombivli Fast* (2005), which received critical acclaim and commercial success in Marathi cinema. He later remade it in Tamil as *Evano Oruvan* (2007).

Kamat's Hindi directorial debut was *Mumbai Meri Jaan* (2008). His other films as director include *Force* (2011), *Lai Bhaari* (2014), *Drishyam* (2015), *Madaari* (2016) and *Rocky Handsome* (2016). He also appeared as an actor in several films, including a role in *Rocky Handsome*. He died in Hyderabad at the age of 50.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, thehindu.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Drishyam* (2015), Fi1m 74, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/drishyam.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Kanneda* (2025), series, Story
- *Bhavesh Joshi Superhero* (2018), as Rana
- *Daddy* (2017), as Inspector Vijaykar Nitin
- *Madaari* (2016), Director
- *Rocky Handsome* (2016), as Kevin Pereira · Director
- *Drishyam* (2015), Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/drishyam.md)
- *Lai Bhaari* (2014), Director
- *Peddlers* (2012), Actor
- *Force* (2011), Director
- *404: Error Not Found* (2011), as Professor Anirudh
- *Mumbai Meri Jaan* (2008), Director
- *Evano Oruvan* (2007), Director, Story, Dialogue
- *Dombivali Fast* (2005), Director, Screenplay
- *Julie* (2004), Screenplay
- *Saatchya Aat Gharat* (2004), Writer
- *Let the Wind Blow* (2004), as Chabia

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