Arvind Iyer

Arvind Iyer is a former filmmaker and writer of Indian origin. His last known work was the critically acclaimed feature film Drapchi a.k.a.The Nightingale of Tibet in the Tibetan and English languages.A trained practitioner of the Israeli combat and self-defense system Krav Maga, Iyer gave up professional filmmaking in August 2014.
Early life
Iyer was born in Mumbai,India. He is the grandnephew of Padma Vibhushan recipient Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer and V.R. Lakshminarayanan, former Director General of Police, Tamil Nadu and Additional Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation, India.
Career
Iyer directed the music video "Paradise Lost" for the Netherlands-based opera singer Namgyal Lhamo in 2008. The video was released on the eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and made its festival debut when it screened in competition at the Asian Hotshots Berlin film festival in January 2009. It also screened at the 2010 Tibet Film Festival in London and received the 2009 Best Music Video Award at the Tibetan Music Awards.
His debut feature film Drapchi, a.k.a. The Nightingale of Tibet, stars Namgyal Lhamo, Joseph Rezwin, Gen Tenzin-la and Chris Constantinou. Written by Indian screenwriter Pooja Ladha Surti, the film is set against the backdrop of conflicts within occupied Tibet. The film features Namgyal Lhamo in the role of "Yiga Gyalnang," a Tibetan opera singer who is abducted and held as a prisoner at the Drapchi Prison in Lhasa before being transported into isolation in a remote underground prison cell.

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