Siddhant is a Filmmaker, Actor, TV Writer and Film Critic for various outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Time Magazine, Variety and New York Magazine. He was awarded Best Film Critic at the 16th National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, and has won the awards for both Best Film Criticism and Best TV Criticism at the Southern California Journalism Awards. He also served on the Narrative Feature Jury at the 2022 edition of the South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, and his video essay work was voted among the best video essays of 2022 by Sight and Sound Magazine. He is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle.

Siddhant spent his childhood in Mumbai, where he developed a passion for film & theatre, before attending Pace University in New York for his BA in Film & Screen Studies, followed by an MFA in Filmmaking at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles. After graduate school, he worked at Baboon Animation in Brooklyn, where he wrote and edited scripts for various animated shows and feature films. He has worked in Indian television since 2010, having written and conceptualized initial seasons of shows like Making The Cut and Maybe It's Me for MTV India and The Pitch for Bloomberg UTV. He was the Second Unit Director for Heal With Lara, the writer for The Great Indian Home Makeover on NDTV Goodtimes, and was recently hired by H.K. Studios to write their next feature, which is currently in production.

Siddhant has written, directed and edited numerous short films, both digitally and on 16mm, including his first film Game Theory, which premiered at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival in Mumbai in 2008, when he was 16 years old. He also edited Milk Money directed by Nicci Thompson, which was officially selected for the Aberdeen Film Festival in 2014, and he served as Director of Photography for Switching Channels by Gabi Zogall, selected for the One Minute Film Festival in Switzerland the year prior. While living in Los Angeles, Siddhant worked as a Script Supervisor, Assistant Director and Production Designer for several years, and has served on the Short Film Juries for various international film festivals, including Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX and 48 Hours Film Festival in New Zealand. His science fiction story Scratch will be published in 2024 as part of the Third Eye anthology from Graphic India.

You can follow Siddhant on Twitter and find his video essays on YouTube.