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. A writer who works across the page, the stage, and the screen; the stories usually decide the medium

I think I have been writing all my life. As a child, I had the unhelpful habit of rewriting the endings of films and books, usually without improving them. My artistic life began in 2010 when I co-founded a dance theatre company with Bharatanatyam dancer Savitha Sastry. We wanted to create work outside the usual mythological and religious frameworks of classical dance, and that led to stage productions such as Soul Cages, Yudh, The Prophet, and Chains: Love Stories of Shadows. These productions toured internationally with more than 150 performances across fourteen countries, which is still something I find slightly unbelievable.

Since 2018, I have written and directed thirteen short films across genres, including philosophical films such as Dvija and Soul Cages, psychological dramas like Slow Rivers, comedies such as Arangetram and Filter Coffee, and socially themed works including The Colors Trilogy and The Ghost of the Lighthouse.Cinema, I discovered, is just another way of writing — except with light and faces instead of sentences.

A Song for Eresha is my first novel, though in many ways it feels like the work I have been moving toward for years. The novel has also been adapted as a feature film, which I directed. The film will be released in June 2026 and will stream internationally.

I studied at BITS Pilani and later at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, though storytelling is something I learned more from practice than from classrooms.

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