"A filmmaker weds his story and generates a movie that is nigh to his heart and speaks of his perceptions of the world around him," he explicates.

The film, which is in Bhojpuri, has been selected in two categories--the international competition and berlinnale shorts. It relates the story of teenage angst. In the short film that lasts for twenty minutes the protagonist, Ashu, a teenage boy, is fascinated by an older woman and is contemporaneously working at the love-hate relationship that he shares with his mother.

Talking about the journey of making the film, he reminisces that it was a cathartic experience and now that the film has been well received he is dumbfounded with wonderment. "The two difficult months that the team spent assembling the story together and the wait for rain for a scene in the movie will always remain fresh in my mind," he narrates.

An auteur director from stem to stern, he prefers to pen all his scripts himself. "When the director thinks of a story, he becomes wont to the characters and there is nobody better than him who can voice their feelings," he emphasizes. Trained for the craft at FTII, he says that he is indebted to Mani Kaul, the consummate director and his teacher. He adds that the experiences that you have at FTII are perennial and the fact that the students were allowed to make mistakes was a pleasant perk. "And not to forget the wonderful canteen chai," he laughs.

Born in Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh, he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Delhi University. He proceeded to do a course in film direction from FTII. In his bulging cinematographic laurels, he is credited with directing a short documentary film 'Rangbela' that featured in the 2006 International Documentary Film Festival. Far from taking a lateral path, his career graph only soared when in 2006 he directed the popular music video for singer Kailash Kher's album 'Kailasa'. He is currently working on a script for a Hindi feature film.