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FEATURE SCREENPLAYS
NISA / WOMAN
Feature Screenplay | NarrativeI India USA UK I Stage: Screenwriting & Project Development
Writer-Director, Co-Producer. 
Emerging Voice in Indian Cinema Award, The Writers Ink, Mumbai 2023

BIRD WOMAN
Feature Screenplay I Narrative I USA I Stage: Screenwriting 
The Athena Screenwriters Lab, New York, Stowe Story Labs (SAG Indie Finalist)
Sundance Screenwriting Lab, Round I

REBELLIOUS AS THE WIND
Feature Screenplay | Narrative I USA I Stage: Screenwriting 
Sundance Screenwriting Lab, Round I

​​DOCUMENTARY & HYBRID FILM SCREENPLAYS
INHERITANCE / HOUSE OF DREAMS
Hybrid Documentary | USA / India | Stage: Research & Development, 2026

THE GHETTO GIRL
Hybrid Doc-Fiction / Personal Essay Film | 28 min | India / USA | 2014
Writer-Director, Editor.

FOUR WOMEN AND A ROOM
Hybrid Doc-Fiction | 28 min | India | 2009
Writer-Director, Editor

NON-FICTION WRITINGS
“VEILING/UNVEILING”Essay in The Hijab, Islam & The Politics of Women’s Clothing | Simon & Schuster India | 2023
Read : Simon & Schuster

“WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LIVE UNDER THE FEAR OF BEING DECLARED FOREIGNER IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY? NOTES ON CITIZENSHIP AND BELONGING” Essay | The Polis Project | 2020

“THE GHETTO GIRL”Essay | Media Fields Journal, Issue 5: Critical Explorations in Memory and Space | University of California, Santa Barbara 

“MY FEAR BEGINS WHERE YOUR FEAR ENDS”Essay in Sarai Reader 08: Fear | Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi 
READ: Sarai Reader 08: FEAR

AUDIO WALK
42 AND CHESTNUT STREETAudio Walk | 3 min 
A site-specific audio walk about memory, borders, and spatial practices.

​SHORT & EXPERIMENTAL SCREENPLAYS 
STRAY GIRLS
Short Screenplay | India I USA I UK 
Presented and produced by Anurag Kashyap

SULTANA’S DREAM
Short Screenplay Adaptation | India / USA 
Adapted from Begum Rokeya’s 1905 feminist text, the film reimagines Ladyland through the lens of Muslim feminist futurism and diasporic memory.

CHLOÉ
Short Screenplay | USA | 2019A homeless teenager wanders through the streets of a small town in Upstate New York.

AYESHA
Short Screenplay | USA 
Ben Lazaroff Screenwriting Award
Carole Fielding Award

A DIARY SCATTERED IN TIME AND PLACE
Experimental Narrative | 16mm Film | USA

​TRANSLATION
“THE SECOND SHROUD”Translation of Premchand’s “Doosra Kafan” | New Urdu Fictions | Katha India / Jamia Millia Islamia

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