About me

Experienced and award-winning London-based writer – mainly for screen but more recently stage  – working across the comedy, thriller, science fiction and horror genres.

Winner of the 2017 IMDb Script to Screen Award for short script Femme Fatale (and director of both film and stage versions), scriptwriter of the 2018 ARRI Challenge ALEXA winning project Special Delivery (10 film festival awards) and 2017-18 BBC Comedy Room alumnus.

Longlisted for the 2020 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award and 2022 Traverse Theatre Breakthrough Writers In Residence scheme.

My Plays

Connected


Synopsis:

CONNECTED is a high-concept science fiction horror comedy – with zombies (kinda) – about three mismatched individuals – two Gen Z working-class South Asian women and a white middle-aged middle-class Baby Boomer – holed up together (reluctantly) in an attic flat in West London during an apocalyptic extinction level event.


Number of Characters: 3


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 3


Length (in Pages): 53


Location: The bedroom of an attic flat above a mini-shopping parade on an otherwise residential street in West London.


Key Words: Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Horror, Black Comedy, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Post-apocalyptic, South Asian


Has the Play Been Produced? No


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


Award nominations/wins: Longlisted for the Traverse Theatre Breakthrough Writers: In Residence 2022.


Reviews:

\"I found Connected to be a really engaging and exciting read. I wanted to spend time with the characters in their world, Mindy and Vee were relatable, smart and rounded characters I would be intrigued to see what other characteristics they have through the development of this play. Even though AI/Sci Fi and thrillers such as The Purge are familiar set ups, you approached it with real originality weaving in important themes and dynamics I have not seen in that genre before, such as accurate and sensitive portrayal of ASD, intergenerational differences and sexual relationships.\" - Reader for Bush Theatre Script Theatre Submissions 2021.

 

\"[A] dystopian and genuinely unnerving look at how AI could successfully overrun humans. This play was a joy to read. Your dialogue is pithy, pacey and witty - I laughed out loud several times. Your comedy timing was brilliant. Mindy, Kim and Vee are all really well drawn, charming and relatable and leap off the page.\" - Second round reader. 2022 Papatango New Writing Prize.

 

\"[A] fun and exciting script and really made us reflect on an impending sense of doom with the advancement of technology and AI.\" - Tara Theatre feedback.

Face Off


Synopsis:

Twisting dark comedy about a young, ill-matched, South Asian couple temporarily separated by the first Covid-19 Lockdown - she shielding with her vulnerable mum, he furloughed alone with his Xbox - and how a half-hour Zoom call (in real-time) exposes lies, betrayals and a tragedy, leading to a final cathartic act of revenge.


Number of Characters: 3


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 3


Length (in Pages): 23


Location: Terraced house kitchen and ground floor flat living room.


Key Words: Dark comedy, Relationship Drama, South Asian protagonists, Zoom, Sex, Lies, Betrayal, Revenge, Twist in the tale


Has the Play Been Produced? No


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


Award nominations/wins:


Reviews:

Femme Fatale


Synopsis:

Young married teacher Tim encounters the enigmatic and alluring Mandeep but the flirty banter soon turns sinister when it becomes clear that Mandeep knows much more about Tim than she really should.

 

Not all meet-cutes with manic pixie dream girls have happy endings.


Number of Characters: 3


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 2


Length (in Pages): 15


Location: Seating area of a a motorway cafeteria.


Key Words: Two-hander, dark comedy thriller, South Asian female protagonist, predator, revenge, social media, twist in the tale


Has the Play Been Produced? Yes


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


Award nominations/wins:


Reviews:

\"So impactful. A really strong script and excellent acting. I could not stop watching Radhika [Mandeep] and wanted to punch Zac [Tim] many times. This is an important script and performance that is disturbingly relevant and brutally transparent about toxic masculinity.\" - Audience feedback.


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Flesh and Blood


Synopsis:

Stage thriller in the the tradition of Sleuth but with an all-female cast, and told over three separate timelines: past, present and future. 18-year-old Alex, held prisoner – chained up – in an isolated cottage bedroom for 10 years by her own mother – turns the tables on her jailer, immobilising her, so both now trapped in the room – and so begins the ultimate battle for supremacy between Mother and Daughter, where the stakes are life and death.


Number of Characters: 3


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 3


Length (in Pages): 79


Location: Bedroom of an isolated, rural cottage.


Key Words: all-female cast, two-hander, psychological thriller, horror, twisted, non-linear, twist in the tale


Has the Play Been Produced? No


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


Award nominations/wins: Longlisted for 2020 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award.


Reviews:

Flesh and Blood is based on a four minute short Romantic Hideaway which won the award for best film under five minutes category at the 2013 London Independent Film Festival. Click here to to watch the short on Vimeo.

Mummy Dearest


Synopsis:

Black comedy about the love-hate, codependent relationship between a rebellious, woke, boomeranging-home, 30-year-old, South Asian adult daughter and her manipulative and cunning second-generation, politically-correct (1990s-style), Punjabi mum who also happens to be a serial killer.


Number of Characters: 4


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 2


Length (in Pages): 10


Location: Family lounge in a suburban house


Key Words: Black comedy, South Asian, Mother, Daughter, Intergenerational conflict, Death, Murder, Serial Killer


Has the Play Been Produced? Yes


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


Award nominations/wins:


Reviews:

\"Clever idea, the family dynamics transcend and become universal. Funny premise from clearly an experienced writer, well executed, good structure and shape, and it got laughs.\" - Audience feedback.

 

\"Unique writers voice and great comedy. Strong and believable characters.\" - Audience feedback.

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London

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