Siddhant is a film critic for various outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Time Magazine, Variety and New York Magazine. He won the award Best Film Critic at the 16th National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, and has been awarded both Best Film Criticism and Best TV Criticism at the Southern California Journalism Awards. His video work was voted among the best video essays of 2022 by Sight and Sound Magazine. He is currently a member of the New York Film Critics Circle.

Siddhant grew up in Mumbai, where he developed a passion for film and 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 LA. 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 written, directed and edited numerous shorts, including his first film Game Theory, which premiered at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival in Mumbai in 2008. He also edited Milk Money which was officially selected for the Aberdeen Film Festival in 2014, and he served as Director of Photography for the 16mm short Switching Channels, selected for the One Minute Film Festival in Switzerland the year prior. He has also served on the Juries for various major film festivals, including SXSW in Austin, TX and Greenpoint Film Festival in New York.

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