He directed the independent comedy film Sulemani Keeda in 2013 . His second feature film , Newton was selected as the Indian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards . He also won the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Screenplay for this film Amit is born and brought up in Mumbai and studied in IES School , Dadar . Amit dropped out of an engineering course at Manipal Institute of Technology at the age of 20 to pursue filmmaking . He later acquired a BA degree in History from Mumbai University
90th Academy Awards
90th Academy Awards
Amit V. Masurkar