Lalit Vachani is a documentary filmmaker and producer/director of the New Delhi based Wide Eye Film. He studied at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University and at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in the US. He was visiting lecturer at the Mass Communication Research Centre, Delhi from 1990-92 and 1996-98 and visiting scholar at the Center for Media, Culture and History at New York University in 1999.

Vachani’s films have received support from the Soros/Sundance Documentary Foundation, the Jan Vrijman Fund, and the India Foundation for the Arts.