I started my career as an Assistant Cinematographer and worked with reputed Cinematographers in India for many big budget feature films.

I worked as an Assistant Director / Associate Director for a few feature films.

I wrote for a few feature films and have recently written the story, screenplay and dialogs for an English feature film titled “Kings Cross” shot in London.

I worked as a Fixer / Line Producer for many International production houses / networks.

Some of the projects I was involved in:

The Untouchable Kids Of India – Nick News with Linda Ellerbee:(Emmy Winner!)

I worked as a fixer for Lucky Duck Productions “Nick News” show shot all over in India for over a month in 2007. I assisted the visiting crew with almost everything including permissions for the shoot, travel, identifying subjects for the shoot, coordinating with locals in some sensitive areas etc and managed to get everything the team wanted.

NBC Nightly News:
I worked with Mara Schiavocampo, the first Digital Correspondent of NBC News for a 10 day shoot spread across various cities in India. Even though the project came to me at the last minute, I managed to procure permissions, identify subjects, companies etc for the various stories Mara covered in India.

We covered stories in Bangalore, Tirupati, Chennai, Pune and Mumbai. Whatever Mara wanted, I got it organized while we were on the move.

MTV USA – Exiled!:

I was the Local Producer for MTV’s much awaited reality show Exiled! Shot in Kerala, India. This was a huge production and I was responsible for finding the locations, subjects, getting permits from the Ministry of External Affairs, the forest departments, state government etc and all the other production logistics of the filming.

Discovery Channel – FightQuest:

I worked as the Local Producer for Fight Quest, A popular reality show on Martial Arts by the Discovery Channel. I was responsible from getting the permits to coordinating the shoot in Kerala, India.

Nick News – Torchlight on Tibet:

Lucky Duck Productions chose to work with me again for their second documentary in India about issues faced by Tibetan Children in India.

I took care of the complete logistics of the documentary which was shot in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh and New Delhi. .

NBC News – Mumbai Terror Attacks

I worked with NBC News as the local producer and was responsible for coordinating various interviews, did live phoners and help get the network exclusive footage of the attacks.

ITN UK

I worked with ITN UK on many stories including the Mumbai Terror Attacks, The Chennai cricket test match etc. I have produced the Shilpa Shetty interview on the Jade Goody topic.

EXPEDITION: Blue Planet with Alexandra Cousteau

I worked as a Local producer in India for Expedition: Blue Planet, a 100 day, 5 continent expedition on water issues by Alexandra Cousteau, grand daughter of legendary Jacques Cousteau.

Dateline NBC: The Slumdog Millionaire Show

NBC News came to India for their popular Dateline show. Dateline NBC explored the lives of “Slumdog Millionaire” children Azhar and Rubina to know more about their lives post the success of the academy winning movie and the adulation bestowed on the child actors. NBC interviewed the children, their parents and various other people including the officials of “Jai Ho” trust, child rights activists, government officials etc on various topics concerning the children.

For a week, Dateline NBC followed in depth the day to day life of Azhar and Rubina in the slums of Mumbai. We helped NBC produce the show by conducting interviews, giving logistical support and taking care of all other aspects of the production.

BBC1: MasterChef

MasterChef, United Kingdom’s most popular cookery show, receiving on average 5 million viewers an episode came to India for one it’s final episodes of the season. We helped the MasterChef team in everything from sourcing permits to arranging locations and all other logistics involved for the filming.

IYF (International Youth Federation)

I directed the IYF’s Mumbai segment which was aired on CNN as a part of a much larger show.

My strengths…having did a lot of student projects in journalism, apart from my 3 year stint in a major IT company and my film experience, my strength, apart from my contacts is my out of the box thinking and having “Nothing is Impossible” attitude.