Everything I do begins with a story.

I have worked across literature, cinema, and the performing arts, moving between philosophical drama, psychological narratives, social commentary, comedy, and love stories. I tend to follow the story rather than the medium, though the two occasionally arrive at an agreement.

My artistic journey began in 2010 when the Bharatanatyam dancer Savitha Sastry and I started creating work outside the usual mythological frameworks of classical dance, largely because it seemed more interesting and marginally less predictable. This led to stage productions such as Soul Cages, Yudh, The Prophet, and Chains: Love Stories of Shadows, which toured internationally across fourteen countries — a fact I still find faintly surprising.

Since 2018, I have written and directed thirteen short films across multiple genres, including philosophical works such as Dvija and Soul Cages, psychological dramas like Slow Rivers, comedies including Arangetram and Filter Coffee, and socially themed films such as The Colors Trilogy and The Ghost of the Lighthouse. Somewhere along the way, I realised cinema is really just another form of writing, only with considerably more equipment.

A Song for Eresha is my first novel and was also adapted into a feature film, which I directed. It seemed inefficient to stop at one medium.

Born in Madras (now Chennai), I am an alumnus of P.S. Senior Secondary School, BITS Pilani, and Case Western Reserve University, though storytelling is something I have learned rather more through trial, error, and the occasional artistic catastrophe.

I now live and write in the Nilgiri mountains in South India. The landscape is peaceful; the stories, less so.