Aliakbar Campwala

Aliakbar Campwala (born Mumbai) is an Indian actor, filmmaker, and director, originally from India, who lives in the United Kingdom. He is best known for his role in the film 7 Welcome to London which is a British made Bollywood-esque action the entertainer on the topic of immigration.
Early life
Campwala is an occasional actor, instead preferring mostly to direct, write scripts, and edit films and has won short film awards and worked as an assistant to different kinds of filmmakers, where he has screened films in festivals. He has mostly worked in media production, but he also does a bit of acting and loves doing comedy. In this production (7WTL). In 2008 he was involved in a Kurdish SZA, meaning pain, film selected at the Exodus Film Festival. The film deals with the conflict between older and younger generation refugees in England.
Campwala presented his new film Samuel Street at Cannes’ Marché du Film 2016, which explores the upheavals of the Middle-Class masses of India, cultural and commercial capital.
Campwala served as a screenwriter, assistant director, and editor. He counts among his influences, films from around the globe including Taare Zameen Par, In the Mood for love, a bittersweet life (Korean film), and others.
Film career
Being Gujarati, he masterly plays Goldie in the film (Asad Shan’s best friend). A very different character, a light-hearted person - has played a very interesting role in the film. Goldie is a South Indian person living in the UK he’s an IT engineer and Aliakbar Campwala previous experiences in Bombay and has a lot of friends from South India who would only talk IT helped him to conquer the knowledge and could put that into the character he played.
2011 brought the short "Satisfied???" which was written and directed by Campwala. The film won Best Indian Short in 2011, it is based on a personal story reflecting the changing world in cities including Campwala's native Mumbai. In the same year, he released a documentary titled ‘The Invisible Subtitler’ which sheds some light on how the subtitles industry has developed and how translators provide the subtitles for the benefit of movie watchers. The documentary was screened at The European Commission's representation in the UK, the "Europe House" in London.
In 2012 Aliakbar Campwala starred in the British film "7 Welcome to London", a film about the experiences of immigrants from India. Playing Goldie, a South Indian IT Engineer living in the United Kingdom, who has come to regard London as a second home. His character Goldie meets and befriends 25-year-old Jai, an illegal immigrant in London hoping to improve his family's situation back in India. drew inspiration for the character from his travels as a child to South India.
In the year 2013, The Labor Film Database remarked Campwala’s documentary - 'The Invisible Subtitler' - as the first documentary to provide a clear insight into the world of subtitling in the film industry. It is an independent documentary about the use of subtitles in cinema and the life of subtitlers themselves who are living in the UK. It also focuses on the economic issues faced by the subtitlers and how they are currently invisible in the globalized business of the film industry.
On May 14, 2016, Campwala presented his new film Samuel Street at Cannes’ Marché du Film, which explores the upheavals of the middle-class masses of India, cultural and commercial capital.
'Not Out', the documentary Campwala directed in Mumbai in 2019. It celebrates the Mumbai's gully cricket scene with 'Gladiators' an underdog underprivileged team that reunited to play cricket after 2 decades in India once again.
2020, Campwala, written and directed 'Lockdown Dreams 2020’; a comic lockdown web-series which is filmed by actors from different parts of the world.
Media presence
Campwala is among the few directors whose film 'The Invisible Subtitler' was premiered at Europe on Screen, the longest-running international film festival in Indonesia, a celebration of 100th Anniversary that happened from 3-12 May 2018, of Ingmar Bergman and a dip in the Ocean Festival. The tradition of bringing Europe filmmakers to Indonesia.
Personal life
Campwala was born and raised in Dongri, and lives in Bedfordshire, UK.<ref name=mb/>

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