Oct 2020 – Dec 2020 · 2 mos

• Worked closely with the Head of Production (South Asia & Latin America) and lead writers to fine tune and develop their series for the Indian OTT market.

Aug 2020 – Nov 2020 · 3 mos

• Worked extensively and exclusively with the LA team, providing market insight and building production and creative partnerships to help set up Snap Inc’s first international content slate in the local Indian market.

Apr 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• As the first creative executive to be hired out of India, worked alongside the LA team on series, to help build the India content team, and help lay out the early India content strategy & slate. Have worked across various genres and various budgets to help set up Netflix in India with a variety of external creative partners on shows like Sacred Games (Intl Emmy Nominated), Ghoul, Delhi Crime (Intl Emmy Winner), Leila, Typewriter, Little Things, Masaba Masaba, Messy, Mai, Bombay Begums, Mehreen and Baahubali.
• The job also entailed working cross functionally with production, finance, marketing, publicity and product teams on each of the shows from development to launch.

Dec 2014 – Mar 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Helped curate and build the content slate, by working hands on as a development and creative executive to bring shows and films to production, working with writers and directors as well as producers like Blumhouse and Ivanhoe
• Associate Producer - Ghoul (Series for Netflix)
• Head of Development - Sacred Games (Series for Netflix), Bhavesh Joshi Superhero, Trapped, Choked, Jubilee (Series for Amazon Prime Video)
• Creative Producer - Raman Raghav 2.0

Sep 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra

• Content Development: Source and adapt content to make for Indian fictional TV series.
• Content Acquisition: Met with various content creators from films, TV, and Literature - writers, director, producers, authors and shortlist possible projects to develop further.
• Project Heading: Handled all aspects of creating a TV series till pilot and beyond

Jun 2009 – Sep 2013 · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Worked on creatives, format & content development and pitches of tv shows for GECs and niche channels. This entailed working on shows from their evolutionary stage to their production stage.
• Asst Content Head on 'Sach ka Saamna' (season 1) aired on Star Plus
• Content Head on 'Sach ka Saamna' (seasons 2 & 3) aired on Life Ok
• Content Head - 'HDFC National Spell Bee' aired on Discovery
• Assoc. Producer & Core Team - Creative & Programming for 'Hindustan ke Hunarbaaz' aired on Life OK
• Assoc. Producer on the pilot episode of 'Missing' - a fictionalised re-enactment based on a true story for Life OK
• Head of Research and Content Editor on the pilot episode of 'Anjaam' - a reconstructed reality/docu-drama for Sony Entertainment

May 2009 – May 2009 · 0 mo

• Worked with Bang Bang Films to assist Jonathan Lennard, director based in Paris.

Oct 2008 – Feb 2009 · 4 mos

• On the request of the film’s director and in a bid to bring the story and characters to life through the spaces they inhabit, assisted the production designer, Shashank Tere on the film Delhi Belly

Jun 2008 – Feb 2009 · 8 mos

• Assisted the director Abinay Deo, on creatives, for the film Delhi Belly

Mar 2006 – Jun 2008 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• For over 2 years I worked with Ram Madhvani & Milind Dhaimade, under the guidance of Sumantra Ghosal.
• I also made 'the making of' for the Cannes Lions 2007 winning commercial 'Palace' for Happydent White on which I had assisted Ram Madhvani. The 'making of' was featured in the 87th edition of 'Shots' - an international show-reel of the best commercials world wide.
• I also had the opportunity to work with Eden Tyler, a Director with Great Guns LA, as his creative assistant.
• Brands worked on: Godrej, Perfetti, Airtel, Cadbury Bournvita, Jumpin', Coca Cola, Onida, Clean & Clear, Tata Sky, Tata AIG, X Box, etc.

Jul 2005 – Feb 2006 · 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• I worked under then Creative Director Senthil Kumar in the creative department of the agency on brands as varied as Baskin Robbins, Hindustan Petroleum, Godrej, Diamond Trading Corporation, Smirnoff, etc.

Mar 2004 – Jan 2005 · 10 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Writer and Director of 'Address Unknown', a 57min documentary film on Afghan and Burmese refugees in Delhi

Apr 2002 – Jun 2002 · 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Created audio-visual content for interactive learning
• Written & Directed a documentary on 'Physical and Virtual Authoring Environment for Graphics and Learning Applications', which was exhibited at the WWW12 Culture Proceeding in May 2003.