Soham and Kanhaiya first met while pursuing their studies (separately) in London, through a small but potent community of filmmakers and artists called The Kusp. What began as casual conversations around films, process, and survival as artists slowly turned into an ongoing exchange.
Over the next few years, both continued to make their own short films independently, each project becoming a space to experiment, fail, and hopefully grow. They shared their work with one another: sending cuts, debating decisions, questioning form, and pushing each other forward through dialogue.
In 2024, both returned to India. The shift in landscape was significant: new realities, few connections, but the familiar uncertainty of sustaining an independent filmmaking practice. But the instinct to keep making remained constant. They continued working on their own films, navigating the same hustle that shapes much of the world they portray on screen.
Simples emerged from this moment. It became a natural step forward. A collective attempt to bring together their shared instincts about cinema: what they love about it, what they resist, and the belief in the act of making itself. The strange and beautiful momentum that builds when you simply begin. Simples grew out of that impulse: a decision to work together, to enter a kind of creative flow state, and see where the process leads.
At the very least, in a time when meaning often feels unstable, the act of making something still feels (somewhat) meaningful.
KANHAIYA TRIVEDI is an India-based Shiny Award (U.K)–winning filmmaker and visual artist whose work has screened at BFI Future Film Festival, LSFF, BFI Film on Film Festival, Encounters many more international festivals . A two-time Straight8 winner (2022, 2023), he has been mentored through Film London × EAN and BBC Creative U.
His recent short film A Handshake (WIP), starring Preeti Panigrahi (Sundance winner- Girls Will Be Girls, 2024) and Harish Khanna (ACID- In Retreat, 2025), was shot in Kanpur, U.P., and marks his latest project as writer-director-producer-editor.
He holds an MA in Directing from MetFilm School, London, and a law degree specializing in Intellectual Property.
SOHAM KUNDU is an Indian filmmaker, artist and the founder of Half-Half. Films. A JN-Tata Scholar and graduate of the University Of The Arts London, his grad-short won the Prix-Interculturel Award at FilmSchoolFest Munich.
His latest short Farewell has screened at BAFTA and Oscar-qualifying-festivals and earned nominations at Cannes-Lions and the BSC Awards. Soham has participated in global labs including ProducerLANDxNDFC, MunichFilm-Up, Pop-Up Residency, Writers INK, Step Up UK, and RIFF Talent Lab.
He has recently completed his short 'The Haze' his second collaboration with his mother and sister after AALO, which screened at Mumbai IFF. He is currently working on his non-fiction doc With Love from JJ and fiction feature A Little Love, invited to the Basel House Filmmakers Residency in Switzerland.