Writer and director born in 1989 in Bangalore, India. He studied Direction at Prague Film School. In 2009, he wrote and published an English-language magic-realism novel ‘It’s Raining in Maya’. His debut feature film ‘Thithi’, an Indo-US production, won Golden Leopards for Best Film and Best First Feature at the 2016 Locarno Festival. The film has since won over twenty awards at various film festivals including Palm Springs, Shanghai, Marrakech and Mumbai. It was also invited to the New Directors/New Films program at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. The film was a commercial success, running for close to 100 days in theatres in India while also streaming worldwide through Netflix. In February 2016, he was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of achievers. ‘The Fable’ (2024), his second feature film, was premiered at Berlin International Film Festival.