• 'Young Global Leaders' Award by the Youth Organization of Delhi, 2009


• RAPA Award for Best Director (Non Fiction) for INTO THE ABYSS: A Film on Major Depression, 2003


• NATIONAL AWARD: Best Short Film for HYPNOTHESIS, 1997; Director-Rajat Kapoor, Camera-Rafey, Editor-Vandana Kohli. Official selection for the Indian Panorama section of the 29th International Film Festival Of India, 1998.


• NATIONAL AWARD: Best Sound Design “TAT TVAM ASI, 1997, FTII Diploma Film; Director – Sambit Mohanty, Editor-Vandana Kohli. Official selection for the Indian Panorama section of the 29th International Film Festival Of India, 1998.


• Baburao Patel Prize for Best Student, FTII (1996)


• Kamlakar V. Karkhanis Prize for Best Film Editor, FTII (1996)


• The Sriram Prize for All Round Excellence in College, Lady Sri Ram College (1993)


• The Daulat Rai Desai Prize for Leadership (President of the Students Union) in College (1993)


• Principal's Prize for Outstanding Contribution to the College (1993)


• Best Student in History for two consecutive years (1992, 1993, First and Second in Delhi University respectively)


• Justice Sikri Gold Medal for Head Girl in School, DPS, RK Puram (1990)

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