Megha Ramaswamy

Megha Ramaswamy is a Mumbai-based screenwriter and director. She is also a producer and her production Missfit Films produces innovative films which fall under neither independent nor commercial films. She has also been a beneficiary of the Chicken and Egg in collaboration with IDF for the film and her work with the group Stop Acid Attacks. She is also the co-host to a platform called Cause Effect which produces cause related content and social issues. Megha Ramaswamy graduated from the Television Institute of India (FTII).

She has also worked with Anurag Kashyap Born on 10th September 1972, Anurag Kashyap has es >> Read More... for Bombay Velvet Click to look into! >> Read More... and ShekharKapur for his film Paani. Her short film, Newborns is based upon the life of acid attack survivors. Her Film focuses on their daily struggle after the attack and the how the world reacts or behaves with them. It is also on the concept of beauty from the perspective of the victims. Her short film was premiered in 2014 at the Toronto International Film Festival and was reviewed as the best film of the Programme Four.

The film has been screened at many international film festivals and have won numerous awards and appreciation. It won the German Star Award for Best Documentary at the Indisches Film Festival Stuttgart, JIFF’15 Worldwood International Panorama and Moonfaze Feminist Film Festival in LA. It also won Best Short Documentary Award at the Mumbai Women's International Film Festival and the Delhi Shorts International Film Festival (Jury Prize). It won both the Audience and the Jury Award for Best Short Film in the London Asian Film Festival.

The CARTel Select Special Mention for Innovation Award was given to Newborns in Los Angeles. Bunny is an audio/visual project of Megha Ramaswamy which was also premiered in North America at TIFF in 2015. It also got recognition in other international film festivals like CORK, NIFF, IFFLA etc. Ramaswamy's The Last Music Store is the latest documentary short which was premiered at the South Asian International Film. It won the Best Audience Award for Best Documentary. The film is on the closure of Rhythm House in Mumbai due to high piracy.

Megha RamaswamyAN only child of her parents who grew up in Pune. In an interview she toldhow she always wanted a sibling but was consoled by books. That’s how she started her writing career motivated by her Grandfather. She is also the writer of Shaitan (2011). It is her only mainstream film credit as a screenwriter. Megha Ramaswamy does not fit into the mainstream bollywood film industry and she is proud about it.