He has directed 12 documentaries, and is making his first feature film called Orphan. He has won 4 national awards (of which he has returned 3) and half a dozen international awards. He has been an independent cinematographer for 30 years and directing for the last 25 years. Two of his documentary films won the Colden Conch Award in Mumbai Film Festival. In 1990 and 1996 he conducted masterclasses in Busan, Helsinki, Pune, Kolkata, Bangalore, Delhi, Austin, and Berkeley. He has been doing workshops in FTII, SRFTII, Whistling Woods International, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, etc., for the past 20 years.