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| Born | Manish Pandey 1967–1968 Simla, India |
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| Years active | 2010–present |
| Works | Senna (film) (2010), Motorsport Heroes (2020), Lucky! (2022), Luca: Seeing Red (2025) |
Manish Pandey is a British-Indian filmmaker.
After starting out a career as a doctor, he changed his career by following his passion and writing a documentary about Senna. From there on, he wrote, made and produced several other documentaries and TV-series, combining this with his work as orthopedic surgeon in London’s Mount Vernon hospital.
Early life and career
editAfter studying Medicine in Cambridge, Pandey started a career in Orthopaedics.
After writing a few romantic comedies for Working Title Films, Pandey made his big break through with the documentary Senna (film) (2010).
In 2017, he wrote and produced Grand Prix Driver for Amazon Prime.
In 2020, his documentary Motorsport Heroes was released. In this movie, he pictured the lives of several Formula 1 drivers.
His passion for Formula 1 brought him in 2022 to the TV-series Lucky! about Formula 1 magnate Bernie Ecclestone.
A few years later, in 2025, a new documentary was released about Chris Harris spending a week with Ferrari legend Luca di Montezemelo.
Personal life
editManish Pandey is married and lives in London.
Other projects
editManish Pandey is 1 of the 4 co-hosts of the car podcast Chris Harris on Cars. Together with Chris Harris, Chris Cooper and Neil Clifford, Manish Pandey talks every week about car nerd facts, questions and news. This also includes of course F1 news, where Manish Pandey is the man on the inside.
Awards, honors and recognition
editThe Senna documentary won many awards, like the BAFTA Best Documentary and Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary.
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