I'm Not An Actor

I'm Not An Actor 2025

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Mouni, a 35 year old frustrated but puritanical actor in Mumbai meets Adnan Baig, a 55 year old depressed, recently retired banker in Frankfurt over an online film audition and spends the rest of the day teaching him acting over video calls. As they both walk around Mumbai and Frankfurt, the acting class forces them both to be emotionally naked and vulnerable; and confront things about themselves that they've both swept under the rug for years.

2025

Not Today

Not Today 2021

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Aliah Rupawala, is a 24 year old Bohri Muslim girl from a very traditional family. She secretly becomes a Suicide Prevention Counsellor and on her first day she encounters a 52 year old man about to jump from the terrace of a high-rise. As she begins to try to bring him down, she is forced to confront why she became a Suicide Prevention Counsellor in the first place, and also share a lot of herself to get him to share and open up. Going all in, to save him, she begins to deal with and release the loneliness and grief in herself to be able to do the same in the caller. And in doing so, ends up healing not just her own heart, but also the heart of the man who has called, a man who has himself been a Suicide Prevention Counsellor for 15 years.

2021

Devi Aur Hero

Devi Aur Hero 2019

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Kaali Ghosh, who has been kept as a sex slave by an industrialist's son, escapes. But she needs to solve the case of her constant blackouts. For this she visits a therapist whose ad she sees in the papers. Vikrant Saraswat is a therapist who is himself seeking therapy for sex addiction and his worst fear is getting back to work and seeing a woman client who he is attracted to. And Kaali meets him. They both need to help each other out, before the shadow sides of their minds completely take over their worlds and push them into doom. Will Kaali be able to step out of her Dissociative Identity disorder and make peace with the identities created within her? Will Vikrant be able to reconnect with the feminine, beyond his addiction and find salvation in doing his work righteously and aptly?

2019

PORTRAIT OF A WILLOW WOMAN

PORTRAIT OF A WILLOW WOMAN 2024

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Deeptimoni Hajong, an elderly indigenous woman lives in a remote village in Meghalaya, embracing her unapologetic existence steeped in traditional healing, beliefs, and ancestral lore. As the filmmaker embarks on a quest to uncover Deeptimoni's world, the journey transcends into a longing for deeper connections to timeless memories and mythical legacies passed through generations.

2024