Anil Zankar is a recipient of two national awards, one for a film script and the other for a book on cinema and a visiting faculty of humanities and social sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.
Zankar is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII, Pune).
He has made 21 short films on social issues and institutions, biopics, and corporate themes.
[1][2][3][4] Anil Zankar has taught at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IISER Pune since 2017.
[1] He has played cameos in two recent productions, as Dr. Kamath in Mission Mangal and as Sitaram Yechuri in Accidental Prime Minister.