She is an Indian Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter & Editor. She started her career in the television industry and gradually moved on to making feature films. Her first international feature film, ‘Parched’, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival in 2015. She was born to an Indian Army General in Madhya Pradesh. As a TV show's director, she directed both fiction and non-fiction for almost 12 years; some of the TV shows. As a mainstream film director, ‘Shabd’ was her directorial debut with unconventional storyline released in 2005. ‘Teen Patti’ was her second film after a gap of five years. ‘Parched’ is the latest movie directed by her starring Tannishtha Chatterjee, Radhika Apte, Surveen Chawla and Adil Hussain playing lead roles. The film was produced by Ajay Devgn. Parched is the story of four women in a desert village of Rajasthan, India. The village and the society are plagued by several social evils, age-old traditions, and practices of patriarchy, child marriage, dowry, marital rapes and physical and mental abuse. Rani (Tannishtha Chatterjee) is a widow struggling to support her old mother-in-law and teenage son, Gulab (Riddhi Sen). Following village customs, Rani marries Gulab off to a child bride by paying a hefty sum to the bride's family. Meanwhile, Gulab is disrespectful, rebellious, and prefers to loiter with a gang of spoilt friends and spend time with sex workers. As Rani witnesses, Manoj falls on fire and is burnt alive. Rani, Lajjo, and Bijli together finally run away from the village in search of a better life, away from all the misery of customs, traditions, and patriarchy. by Snehha Suresh