His recent short film No Vacancy profiles artists affected by the housing crises in San Francisco and won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short at the Asian Film Festival of Dallas in 2017. Prior to that, he worked on a series of short films for KQED Arts. Bay Area Ballerina, a short film produced, shot and edited by Abhi, featuring Miko Fogarty was nominated for a 2016 Webby Award. His work has screened at several international film festivals including Sheffield Doc/Fest (UK), FIPA- Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels (France), Sehsuchte International Film Festival (Germany), Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, (Sebastopol, California), Documentary Film Festival, Independent Film Festival Boston, and the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.