Alankrita Shrivastava is an international award-winning film director and screenwriter from Mumbai, India, with a penchant for telling women’s stories. She loves to explore the interior worlds of women through her work. She has written and directed three feature films – Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare, Lipstick Under My Burkha and Turning 30. She has created the Netflix series Bombay Begums and written and directed for it. She has also written and directed for the hugely popular, Emmy-nominated Amazon Prime Original series, Made in Heaven, Season One and Season Two. The series has been a watershed for the portrayal of LGBQT characters and exposing the deep patriarchy that lies just beneath the surface of Indian society. Alankrita has also written and directed a segment for the Amazon series, Modern Love Mumbai.
