screenwriter-producer
QUARTERFINALIST - 2020 & 2022
SPECIAL JURY AWARD 2022
OFFICIAL SELECTION
OFFICIAL SELECTION
An award-winning screenwriter-producer, Sunil is passionate about writing stories with strong women who take the uncharted path.
Raised by matriarchs in a joint family and sent off to a boarding school at the tender age of eight, he always found great comfort in escaping into the realm of stories. Shaped by strong women in his own life who encouraged him to take the unconventional route - from engineering at IIT to a master’s in TV and Film; from working as a TV exec to becoming a full-time screenwriter.
Now, he writes intricate, suspenseful thrillers based on true events with female leads in unconventional roles and loves to give them twist endings. Having spent more than a decade in TV as an exec developing and greenlighting more than 100 hours of fiction and non-fiction content, scanning news stories and doing research comes naturally to him.
His screenplays and TV shows, including the features "FAKE CALL," “THE INFIDEL BRIDE” and "INVISIBLE GRAVES" and, TV Pilot “THE URBAN NAXAL,” have been finalists in several international screenwriting contests.
He is a veteran TV executive producer with two decades of crafting stories for international brands like National Geographic, Sony Entertainment, ESPN and MTV.
In 2014, he started his own company Orchid Room Productions which he envisioned as a multi-ethnic writer's room. He produced his first short film under The Kyo Project (the social impact arm) titled "ALMOST NORMAL"
He has a bachelor’s in engineering from IIT, Kharagpur, a master’s in TV and Film from Newhouse School, Syracuse, New York and a master screenwriter certificate from ScreenwritingU.
He is also a member of the Screenwriters Association, Mumbai, since 2020.
When he's not cooking up stories, he loves to sing karaoke, strum his guitar and bake sourdough pizzas for his preschool boys!
FAKE CALL
Thriller | 114 mins
An interpreter for the Indian Army in Afghanistan returns to India as a language trainer at a call centre to infiltrate a billion-dollar fake calls scam to expose the secret cartel behind it.
RUSSIAN SNIPER
Action Thriller | 95 mins
A female CIA sleeper agent escapes the Russian prison to stop a KGB Commander from secretly launching a tactical nuclear warhead to win the war on Ukraine.
THE INFIDEL BRIDE
Thriller | 107 mins | QUARTER FINALIST @ BIG BREAK 2022
A pregnant British reporter goes undercover as an ISIS bride to find her missing husband who is now an infamous ISIS fighter known for his beheadings of Infidels.
INVISIBLE GRAVES
Thriller | 115 mins | SPECIAL JURY AWARD @ ISC - JAIPUR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2022
A rookie journalist working on a story of missing persons accidentally discovers a covert operation within the Anti-Terror Squad that turns their probe into a suicide mission.
BORN IN SPACE
Contained Sci-Fi Thriller | 111 mins
A space experimental mission in 2025 goes horribly wrong when the ISS is destroyed and, the sole survivor is a woman in labor, hurtling through space in a cargo ship, 400 Kms above the earth.
THE URBAN NAXAL
Thriller | 1-hr Serial | QUARTERFINALIST @ BIG BREAK 2020 | | JURY SELECTION @ ISC - JAIPUR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2022
THE SIX-POINTER
Comedy Thriller | 1-hr Serial
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