Projects
UNITED STATES OF ALIENS
Writer, Creator, Executive Producer
Format/Genre: Half-hour, comedy
Status: The pilot episode is currently streaming on OTV- Open Television
What’s it about?
United States of Aliens is an unfiltered look at the lives of 20-something "non-resident aliens” aka international post-grads Uduak and Rishita, and their failed attempts to culturally assimilate into everyday American life in Chicago, while they (legally) can.
THE LAST PLAIT
Playwright
Format/Genre: One-act play/Dramedy
Status: Production with Nothing Without A Company for thr New World Play Festival, Chicago (2018) and production with Ekjut Theatre, performed at the South Asia Institute in Chicago (2021).
What’s it about? The Last Plait, is a play about a hypercritical mother Raksha and her defiant daughter Mukti, and the (dysfunctional) intimacy they share with each other. When Mukti returns home to Raksha after a period of absence, they learn to cope with their past, confront their present and fight for their future, over hair-care.
VICE VERSA
Writer, Executive Producer
Format/Genre: Feature Film, Dramedy Status: Selected for Cold Reads, Hot Scripts Reading Series at the iO Theater in Chicago. Currently in development.
What’s it about?
A lo-fi sci-fi dramedy feature about an estranged workaholic mother and her woke teenage daughter who embark on a long and arduous connecting flight. What could go right?
MS ALPHU - A RELUCTANT SUPERFRUIT
Writer
Format/Genre: Short Fiction, Coming-of-age
Status: Published in 2023 in The Punch Magazine (UK) as a part of the online flip book collection that emerged from Spaces Between Words: The Unfestival Season 3, held in Ratnagiri in 2022.
What’s it about? Ms Alphu - A Reluctant Superfruit is a site-specific rumination about what would be, if alphonso mangoes were little girls growing up in a patriarchal world.
TITAN RETURNSHIP AD
Writer
Format/Genre: Digital Ad
Status: Watch on Youtube
What’s it about?
Titan’s returnship program, SEQUAL -redefines women’s return to the workforce and empowers them to dream again.
SHOWTIME
Staff Writer (S1)
Format/Genre: Telvision Series, Drama Status: Streaming on Disney+Hotstar from March 8th, 2024
What’s it about?
Features the power struggles and off-camera fights occurring in the backstage areas of Bollywood.