Ashi Dua

Ashi Dua is an Indian film producer, famously recognized for producing films such as Ghost Stories (2020), Lust Stories (2018), and The Ghazi Attack Click to look into! >> Read More... (2019). Ashi was born in Bareilly, a small town near Uttar Pradesh. She finished her schooling at All Saints and Sherwood and went to Delhi University for higher studies. During her college days, she interned with the television channel 'NDTV' on 'We the People' and 'The Big Fight' and even with an event company before she transitioned to production business. She moved to Mumbai in 2005 and joined St. Xavier's College. Since then, Ashi has been residing in Mumbai.

She hadn't even thought of chasing a career in Bollywood. After finishing college, she interned with a Percept Limited under their Advertising and PR team, where she worked on marketing for a few films. She suddenly got this idea to start a media company. At 22, Ashi Dua found Flying Unicorn Entertainment and started taking up marketing projects from all line of business. Working in the entertainment industry helped Ashi to get in touch with filmmakers and producers. She got introduced to director Anurag Kashyap Born on 10th September 1972, Anurag Kashyap has es >> Read More... during one of the latter's writing workshops. He hired Ashi to work on the production team of his film Dev D after getting overwhelmed with Ashi's aspirations.

In the year 2013, Indian cinema was marking its 100th year. It sparkled Ashi to do something, she came up with the idea of Bombay talkies and wanted four directors to depict four stories in one film. She first pitched it to Anurag, who agreed instantly and managed to pull prominent directors such as Zoya Akhtar Zoya Akhtar has now become a household name promin >> Read More... , Dibakar Banerjee Dibakar Bannerjee is a director and screenwriter a >> Read More... , and Karan Johar Karan Johar is one among the top ten celebrities i >> Read More... in the project. The film did reasonably fine in the box office and got applauded by the critics. Ashi's second production was with writer/director Akshat Verma Akshat Verma is the Indian actor and writer who ma >> Read More... . Actor Saif Ali Khan got roped in to play the lead role in this dark comedy. It was received well by the audience. In 2018 and 2020, he managed to pull together the director of her debut film once again and went on to produce movies Lust Stories and Ghost Stories. In an interview, Ashi says that she was cut out to become an entrepreneur and hopes to do similar creative stories in her long career.