Prashanth Kamalakanthan

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“Man is not complete; he is yet to be. In what he is he is small, and if we could conceive him stopping there for eternity we should have an idea of the most awful hell.”

(Tagore, 1913)


Have a Nice Life (2021)

Feature Film
Role: Writer, Director, Editor

Programmers’ Choice Award, Bushwick Film Festival
Official Selection, New Orleans Film Festival
Official Selection, Maryland Film Festival
Official Selection, American Film Festival
Official Selection, Bentonville Film Festival
Official Selection, Cucalorus Film Festival
Orka Post-Production Award Winner, US in Progress

Supported by IFP, Cinema Conservancy, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, and Duke University Freewater Productions
After hitting dead ends in life, Jyothi, an Indian housewife, and Sophie, a stoner musician, find themselves on the run from the law, together on a wild, surreal American road trip from Durham, North Carolina to Montreal, Canada.

Distributed by The Film Desk x Vinegar Syndrome.

Poster art by Robert Beatty.