Stories I told on screen and on stage:

Feature Films

Promotional poster for the film "A Song for Eresha" featuring two women, one in the foreground and one slightly behind, surrounded by falling leaves with a dark, blurry background.

A Song for Eresha (2026, English)

Featuring: Savitha Sastry, Mayurakshi Sen

Awards

Tagore International Film Festival

Royal Society of Television & Motion Pictures

Berlin Motion Pictures Award

Movie poster for Mannum Manjalum featuring a woman looking pensive, four men at the top, a black bull illustration, and the tagline "Revenge is best served RED."

Mannum Manjalum (Under Production, Tamil)

Featuring: Savitha Sastry, Balaji Sakthivel, TSK

Poster for the film 'Soul Cages' featuring a woman with curly hair in traditional attire, surrounded by masked performers in elaborate costumes with vibrant colors and intricate patterns.

Short Films

Soul Cages (2024, English)

Featuring: Savitha Sastry, Rupesh Tillu

Awards

Jury Mention: Cine Pobre Film Festival, Mexico

A woman in a light blue and white saree performing a dance pose with her arms extended upward against a backdrop of a lighthouse and a stormy sea.

The Ghost of the Lighthouse (2023, English/ Tamil)

Featuring: Savitha Sastry, Jamie Alter

Movie poster for 'Slow Rivers' featuring a woman's face with half of it in pink and black, flanked by a praying woman in traditional attire and an elderly man with white hair, all in black and white. Text includes titles, credits, and quotes.

Slow Rivers (2023, English)

Featuring: Savitha Sastry, Ashish Vidyarthi

Awards

Calcutta International Cult Film Festival

Florence Film Awards

International Film Festival - Jaipur

Tagore International Film Festival

A promotional poster for the film 'Filter Coffee and Masala Chai' showing four women standing in a line, smiling and laughing, with a cityscape in the background. The poster includes text with the film title, cast, crew, and a quote from Indian Express.

Filter Coffee aur Masala Chai (2023, Hindi)

Featuring: Savitha Sastry, Pawan Hora

Three women in a cozy room, with one woman sitting on a bed and two women standing behind her, styling her hair. The woman sitting is wearing a colorful traditional saree, and the two standing women are also dressed in traditional attire. A bookshelf with books and decorative items is seen in the background, along with a framed picture on the wall. The scene appears warm and familial, with sunlight streaming in from a window.

Arangetram (2022, Tamil/ Kannada)

Featuring: Savitha Sastry, Kausalya Natarajan, Zeba Ashrin

Colorful digital art of a woman in traditional attire, multi-colored projection, standing in a dark forest with leafless trees, with the title 'OYAAD' and the phrase 'What if God was one of us'

Dvija (2022, Tamil)

Featuring: Savitha Sastry

Awards

Tagore International Film Festival

A lit poster shows a black and white portrait photograph of a woman with long hair, dressed in traditional clothing, with her hands positioned near her face. A wheelchair is positioned in the foreground, partly visible. The poster features the title "Beyond the Rains" in elegant script and a quote, "A Haiku on celluloid!" from Times of India, with additional text about the production.

Beyond the Rains (2022, English)

Featuring: Savitha Sastry, Sneha Sridhar

Awards

Tokyo Film Awards

Paris Film Awards

Calcutta International Cult Film Festival

Movie poster for 'The Colors Trilogy' featuring a woman in yellow with her hands chained, flanked by three men in black with covered faces.

Colors Trilogy (2020 - 21, English)

Featuring: Savitha Sastry

Awards

Calcutta International Cult Film Festival

International Film Festival of Shimla

Luis Bunuel Memorial Awards

Rosarito International Film Festival, Los Angeles

New York International Film Awards

World Film Carnival, Singapore

A woman in traditional Indian saree and jewelry striking a dance pose outdoors with rocky landscape and a large rock formation in the background.

The Descent (2019, Musical)

Featuring: Savitha Sastry

Awards

Calcutta International Cult Film Festival

Top Shorts

Rome Film Awards

Near Nazareth Festival

Best Global Shorts

Stage

A woman dressed in traditional Indian attire with jewelry, posing with a hand gesture, against a black background. The bottom features a red banner with the title 'CHAINS' and the subtitle 'Love Stories of Shadows'.

Chains: Love Stories of Shadows (2015)

A production that removes the masks of ordinary life and explores the fragile idea of freedom within social boundaries.

Promotional poster for a show called 'The Prophet' featuring a woman in traditional attire meditating with a red and black background.

The Prophet (2013)

Destiny, divinity, and doubt — the story of a prophet.

A red background with a black and white photograph of a woman dressed in traditional Indian attire and jewelry, giving a thumbs-up. The word 'pudk' in stylized font with an arrow, and the subtitle 'Three Perspectives, One Truth'.

Yudh (2013)

A philosophical production that examines why the innocent suffer, told through the perspectives of God, Satan, and humanity.

A woman dressed in traditional attire, wearing jewelry, with her head covered, looking upwards with a contemplative expression, with a dark background and bold text on the right side of the image.

Soul Cages (2012)

An artistic exploration of life and death as a journey rather than an end.