FILMS



VIKPAT
BY
VIKRANT PATANKAR



FADE IN:

 Vikrant dreams to bring Hollywood to the tech scene of San Francisco.
He's also a Kothari and EV Fellow.

All work on this page is written, directed, shot, edited and colored by Vikrant unless noted otherwise.


UPCOMING WORK
MuseYardOld Dream (Q426)Untitled Debut Short


VALUES
1. Do things regardless.

FILMS
Composio
$25m Series A launch — Agents! Agents! Agents!
Brand / Musical / Comedy
Ship Agents in Tenderloin
Product Demo / Comedy
Rube Recipes launchProduct Demo / ComedyAgent Orchestrator launchProduct DemoTrust at ComposioBrandComposio SkillsProduct DemoDatabase for AI AgentsPodcast2025 AI Agent ReportEditorial ReportSF Tech WeekEventYC AgentMail HackathonEvent
Catalyx Space$5m Seed Round announcement — InterstellarBrand / ThesisRex 2.0 Capsule Drop TestHardware Demo
BonusO-1 announcementComedyMeeting FarzaVlogFirst Sunrise of 2026
Personal Film
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) in 70mmTravel


ESSAYS
To AI or not to AIFor the Love of Interstellarlet's stop fetishizing "understanding"fleeting crush


PRESS
Why tech startups are hiring in-house filmmakersThe Times of IndiaThe Story Behind a New Kind of Tech-Filmmaking CareerLA WeeklyWhy AI Won't Replace Filmmaking, According To Vikrant Patankar
INVERSEMumbai Chawl To The Global Stage: The Enigma Of A Filmmaker That Is Vikrant PatankarOutlook IndiaWhy AI Startups Are Hiring In-House FilmmakersTech TimesFellowships open a door for campus entrepreneursThe Economic Times




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ComedyO-1 VISA ANNOUNCEMENT



A Video byVikrant PatankarFeaturingSoham GanatraMusicBill Conti

Composio CEO Soham Ganatra gets his O-1 visa approved. To announce it, he laces up an American flag robe and runs through San Francisco like Rocky Balboa.
Watch it on X
VlogMEETING FARZA


A Video byVikrant PatankarFeaturingFarza MajeedMusicTyler, The Creator

In early 2024, Farza Majeed put out a call for his "Dream Team." Instead of sending a quiet application, Vikrant made a full production out of his pitch, proving his filmmaking chops by doing the thing itself. Farza noticed. They hopped on a Google Meet. He encouraged Vikrant to come to San Francisco and even helped push the visa process along.
The Dream Team project got shelved — but the public pitch had already taken on a life of its own. It caught the eye of Composio CEO Soham Ganatra, and Vikrant became the founding filmmaker at Composio. A freelance product designer from a Mumbai chawl was now making films for a San Francisco startup.
This vlog is the full-circle moment. Vikrant finally meets Farza in person, and they sit down to trace the whole unlikely chain of events — from a forwarded LinkedIn DM, to a viral application video, to a career that didn't exist six months prior. Farza insists he barely did anything. Vikrant disagrees. The truth is somewhere in between: one person's post became the catalyst, but it only worked because someone else chose to take destiny into their own hands.
Read the story yourself in Farza's words
Personal FilmFIRST SUNRISE OF 2026


A Film by & FeaturingVikrant PatankarMusicJustin Hurwitz & Hans Zimmer

A vlog documenting a spontaneous, last-minute trip from Bengaluru to the Liwa Desert in Abu Dhabi — the real filming location of Dune — to continue a decade-long tradition of filming the first sunrise of each year. What started at age 16, inspired by the Japanese tradition of Hatsuhinode from a Doraemon episode, has evolved into an intentional cinematic ritual. For 2026, the vibe was Dune: Hans Zimmer's score, vast sand dunes, and a sunrise over the desert that doubles as a teaser for a future Dune-focused film called Old Dream.
Watch on YouTube
Travel2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY IN 70MM 


A Video by & FeaturingVikrant PatankarMusicJohn Kander, Johann Strauss II, Richard Strauss, & Lin-Manuel Miranda

A New York City vlog built around a cinematic pilgrimage: watching Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in 70mm at the Museum of the Moving Image.What began as a high school viewing on a smartphone — slow, unrewarding — became a lockdown revelation and eventually a 5-star Letterboxd entry with a vow to see it on film.Ostensibly in town for a friend's wedding, the trip becomes a love letter to the theatrical experience — Broadway nights with Chicago and a soul-shaking Hamilton, rooftop reflections on why NYC feels like home (part South Bombay, part HSR Layout, part Delhi), and the quiet conviction that if cinema is a religion, visiting movie theaters is the pilgrimage we must take.
Watch on YouTube
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