Naman Y. Goyal

Naman Goyal (born on August 14, 1986) is an Indian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter and editor. Actively involved in the international short-film circuit, Naman is being recognized for making films on cultural shocks, ideological clashes in societies and romantic comedies.

Early life

Naman did his schooling in Jaipur at the Christian missionary of Saint Anslem's Pink City Senior Secondary School. Naman pursued Dramatic arts from the age of 12 while participating in school plays. In his college years he took up writing and directing plays in his hometown jaipur.

Career

After his plays “Kaise Banegi Yeh Film”, “Kissa Kursi Ka”, and “Shyama” met good reviews, Naman scripted his first movie “Other Than Right Or Wrong” while doing engineering at the age of 20 with the financial assistance of his engineering college “JECRC” and other sponsors. Other than right or wrong is a story about four friends who belong to a small town of India and come to a metro for higher studies. Their lives change when they and the students in the college come to know that two to the four friends are homosexual and have been going around. What follows is discrimination against them and a testing phase for their friendship.

Naman attended the New York Film Academy for a yearlong filmmaking course on a scholarship after his engineering. Naman used his own experiences of culture shock while scripting and directing “An affair with New York”. Lauded for its freshness the film won the Critic award at the “Jaipur International Film Festival” 2010 and was the official selection for “Riverside International film festival” & “ Barebones International Film festival”.

His next directorial release was “The beginning…to get bald”. The film is a comedy about a young arrogant actor who starts to lose his hair. The film targets the insecurities and paranoia surrounding when a person first starts to lose hair. The film won the “Blockbuster – Best film award” at the Miniboxoffice film festival. Naman also co-wrote and edited an action cop drama based on NYPD named “Rear Truth” which got selected in The “Hoboken International Film Festival” and “International black film festival of Nashville”. Naman’s producing credit includes the film “In The Name of Love” which was the official selection for the “Los angeles Women’s International Film Festival”. The film was directed by Bouchra Nali.

Naman is currently working on a feature romantic comedy “Rajiv meets Rachel”. Rajiv Meets Rachel is a romantic comedy about an Indian boy who meets and falls in love with an American girl in New York. Quoting the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) in its news feature from Washington, D.C., The Times of India wrote, “Naman of Jaipur is all set to do “slumdog millionaire” of sorts. The young Indian-Origin US film maker has set out to make a Hollywood film with a Bollywood flavour.

Other than right or wrong

Naman’s first directorial venture took shape while he was pursuing his engineering at Jaipur Engineering College and Research Centre (JECRC). Being an avid movie buff Naman undertook filmmaking without formal training and appropriate resources which made the completion of the movie a yearlong struggle. The famous singer of Bollywood Vinod Rathod released the movie’s music. Touching a sensitive and a controversial issue of homosexuality the film gained hype and attention due to its candidness.

Filmography

• Other than right or wrong (2006–2007) (Writer and Director)
• An affair with New York (2009) (Writer and Director)
• Rear Truth (2009) ( Co-writer and Editor )
• The beginning to get bald (2009) (Writer and Director)
• In the name of love (2010) (Producer)
• Rajiv meets Rachel (in development) (Writer)