Nalin, came into limelight with his debut feature film SAMSARA.
Nalin, a self-taught filmmaker, was born in a remote village in Gujarat, India. The richest thing his family gave to him was his spiritual upbringing. As a child, Nalin disliked schools; instead he used to paint and draw. He also actively participated in staging folk theatre and mythological dramas.

However, he only saw his first movie at age of nine - since that day he always wanted to make movies. Later, as a teenager, he left his family and village in pursuit of cinema. After studies in Fine Arts at the M.S. University of Baroda, Nalin later went to study Design at the prestigious NID (National Institute of Design). After shooting some four animation and twenty short silent films, Nalin concluded that the best film school is life itself.

He traveled widely all over India and finally moved to Mumbai (Bombay) where he worked as production runner. In no time the producers recognized Nalin's talent and offered him a chance to direct commercials and corporate films.

Nalin lived in USA and UK for short time and then went on a six-months' nomadic existence in Europe. On returning to India, he roamed the Himalayas in search of his voice. After a long process of unlearning he developed ideas for several feature films. Along with the process of writing he experimented with the short fiction film forms. Nalin also made several documentaries with BBC, Discovery, Canal Plus and other leading international networks. His recent feature length documentary AYURVEDA: ART OF BEING is at present in theatrical release worldwide.  AYURVEDA has recently celebrated a yearlong theatrical run in Spain and record-breaking three-year long run in France earning Nalin many prestigious awards. Earlier the film met with similar success in USA, Canada, Germany, Holland and Austria.

His first feature film SAMSARA was a huge commercial and critical success worldwide and won him some thirty plus international awards. Many critics and spectators considered SAMSARA a groundbreaking film. SAMSARA grossed US$ 23 million (without USA, UK & Japan) till this date. Miramax/Disney has acquired SAMSARA for the USA.

Nalin’s latest feature film VALLEY OF FLOWERS has been pres-sold to nearly 40 countries and is currently enjoying theatrical release with critical and commercial success worldwide. VALLEY OF FLOWERS was filmed in remote, high altitude Himalayas and in Japan. VALLEY OF FLOWERS won Best Picture at IFFLA Los Angles, also won four nominations at IAAC New York including The Best Picture and The Best Director.

At present, Nalin is working on his first English language feature film, on the life and times of BUDDHA, which will be filmed in Thailand, Nepal and India.

In 2006 Pan Nalin was awarded Spain's highly prestigious award Vida Sana for his contribution as a filmmaker to the ecology, thus an earth keeper. Also in 2007, TMG (David Flint's Triangle Media Group UK) awarded Pan Nalin as one of the Top 50 Achievers in Global Mainstream Media in the field of Film, Theatre & Drama.

Pan Nalin has also served as Jury member at many prestigious International Film Festivals along with Roman Polanski, Maria Medeiros, Jamel Debouze, Ludivine Sagnier, David Wenham, Paz Vega, Sandrine Bonnaire & Teddy Chan.

Pan Nalin is probably the only Indian screenwriter to be twice invited to a prestigious Screenwriter’s lab Equinoxe where he shared his works with top Hollywood screenwriters which included; Ron Bass (Rainman..), David and Janet People (Unforgiven, Blade Runner...) Jim Hart (Dracula, Contact, Lara Croft…), and Shane Black, (Lethal Weapon, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang…) among others. Legendary Diva of French Cinema Jeanne Moreau heads the writer’s lab.

On many occasions Pan Nalin has also been invited to conduct workshop or to be on panels at many prestigious literature, arts or media conclaves. The recent one being at the Jaipur Literature Festival where Nalin was invited for « Art of Adaptation for Screen » with Oscar winner writer Christopher Hampton.

Pan Nalin lives in France & India.