Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#15323
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Kumud Pant works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Kumud Pant appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kumud. Christopher Robin is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, mystery, music. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kumud Pant, Alex Garland, Marc Forster and others, Kumud Pant helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Christopher Robin (2018) as Train Passenger · Miss You Already (2015) as Staff at Charity Gala · Everest (2015) as Taiwan Sherpa
Career snapshot
Ranked #15323 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2015–2026
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
Christopher Robin
Average Nutevio score
4.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.9
Quickie
Most frequent director
Kumud Pant
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Kumud Pant
Most common genre
Music
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 10m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.1
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Annihilation, Christopher Robin, Everest — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Annihilation, Christopher Robin, Everest.
Most productive era
2020s
6 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.02 films | 6.81 film |
| Comedy | 7.22 films | 6.21 film |
| Romance | — | 3.42 films |
| Horror | 6.61 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2015Everest
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Taiwan Sherpa.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026UK Holiday
The current state of the argument, as Aakash.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
10 of 10 films
as Train Passenger
Directed by Marc Forster
as Staff at Charity Gala
Directed by Catherine Hardwicke
as Taiwan Sherpa
Directed by Baltasar Kormákur
as Scientist
Directed by Alex Garland
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Nepali Babu
Quickie (2021)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Nepali Babu gives Kumud Pant a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Train Passenger
Christopher Robin (2018)
Performance score7.2
Christopher Robin asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Train Passenger is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Staff at Charity Gala
Miss You Already (2015)
Performance score7.0
Miss You Already asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Staff at Charity Gala is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Taiwan Sherpa
Everest (2015)
Performance score6.8
Everest asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Taiwan Sherpa is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Nepali Babu
Start here. Quickie is the clearest statement of what Kumud Pant does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 6.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kumud at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Miss You Already (2015)
Keeps the drama register of Quickie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Everest (2015)
Keeps the drama register of Miss You Already but asks for a colder reading of it.
Christopher Robin (2018)
Keeps the adventure register of Everest but asks for a colder reading of it.
Annihilation (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Christopher Robin — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Catherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together
Notably Miss You Already
Baltasar Kormákur
Director
1 film together
Notably Everest
Marc Forster
Director
1 film together
Notably Christopher Robin
Alex Garland
Director
1 film together
Notably Annihilation
Kumud Pant
Director
1 film together
Notably UK Holiday
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Marc Forster
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Christopher RobinCatherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Miss You AlreadyBaltasar Kormákur
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EverestAlex Garland
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AnnihilationKumud Pant
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UK HolidaySix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Christopher Robin
as Train Passenger
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Everest
as Taiwan Sherpa
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Christopher Robin
as Train Passenger
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Christopher Robin
as Train Passenger
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Quickie
as Nepali Babu
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Kumud Pant has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Music Legend
Awarded
3 catalogue titles in music, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Christopher Robin
as Train Passenger
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Annihilation
as Scientist
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Quickie
as Nepali Babu
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Lau Kumude Hidyo Hero Banna
as Hero
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Everest
as Taiwan Sherpa
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Everest
as Taiwan Sherpa
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Christopher Robin
as Train Passenger
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Jawaani Jaaneman
as Singh & Co real estate agents staff
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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