Kahaani Abhi Baaki Hai Mere Dost
Stories don't always arrive in the same form.
Sometimes they become books.
Sometimes they hide inside an empty bottle.
Sometimes they are sitting inside a film, waiting to be noticed.
These are some of the stories I've written, discovered, collected and followed along the way.
Books & Audio
Stories I've written.
I've always been fascinated by what happens when a story moves beyond an idea and becomes something people can actually enter.
I've written fiction for the page, and created stories for the ear.
Chatur Chor Champak
A novel that began as a story and found its home in digital form.
Good Night India
A story created to be heard — one episode at a time.
Picturewallah
These are stories I've helped bring to the screen.
Some stories are meant to be read.
Some are meant to be heard.
And some need a camera.
Over the years, I've had the chance to take stories from the page and the idea stage and help bring them to the screen — sometimes as a writer, sometimes as a performer, and sometimes by making the film myself.
Some films refuse to end when the credits roll.
There are films we watch.
And then there are films that stay.
A scene. A character. A line. A song. A strange little detail you can't quite forget.
Picturewallah is my way of going back to those films — looking at the stories behind them, the stories within them, and sometimes the stories they leave behind.
The Taj Story: कितना सही, कितना ग़लत? | The Taj Story Review
A review of The Taj Story — what it gets right, where it bends, and what it wants you to feel on the way out.
Exposing Lies: Rejection of Propaganda Films | The Bengal Files | Udaipur Files | Vivek Agnihotri
The Bengal Files, Udaipur Files, and what an audience does when a film would rather argue than tell a story.
Stories take many forms.
A novel.
A conversation.
A bottle.
A film.
A memory.
Sometimes a story is waiting to be written.
Sometimes it's waiting to be heard.
And sometimes, you just have to notice that it's already there.
Kahaani abhi baaki hai.
And if you have a story of your own...
That's where Find Your Story comes in. I conduct storytelling workshops for people and organisations who want to find the stories in what they do — and learn how to tell them better.