Some stories refuse to leave.
Films, stories and the worlds between them.
Founder of Avium Studios. Kerala to Mumbai.
A fictional story.
A real historical backdrop.
Period drama · Hindi · 30 minutes
A fictional story with fictional characters, set against the Battle of Colachel in 1741. Developed through IICT’s Create with AI programme. With support from Google & YouTube.
Explore the film chekavars.comI want to tell stories that stay with people after the screen goes dark.
I’m a film director and writer from Kerala, working in Mumbai. My creative interests move between intimate human stories, crime drama and ambitious historical worlds. What connects them is my curiosity about people: what they carry quietly, what they fight for, and what happens when they finally have to choose.
My work includes directing Chekavar, a historical fiction film set against the Battle of Colachel. It builds a world around resistance and conflict.
Through Chekavar, developed through IICT’s Create with AI programme with support from Google & YouTube, I have been exploring how AI-assisted filmmaking can work alongside practical observation and traditional craft. Our live Kalari shoot near Kochi, with real practitioners, was part of that process. I want the freedom of new tools and the discipline to make the result feel believable.
I founded Avium Studios in India and co-founded Avium Studios UK to build a home for that ambition. My work now includes both the creative decisions inside a film and the responsibility of helping a team bring it to completion.
In September 2026, Avium Studios and Garuda X Media opened our Mumbai office in Andheri West. It is a new chapter with Prriyankaa Bajpai and our collaborators: building the people, process and creative confidence to take on more ambitious work.
I want to keep growing as a filmmaker, develop original stories and build a studio whose work can travel across languages and borders. The ambition is large. The commitment has to show up in the work, every day.
A silence, a contradiction, a choice someone cannot take back. I’m drawn to the human detail that gives a story its tension.
Performance, framing, editing and sound have to belong to the same emotional world. I want every choice to serve the scene.
Grow the team. Strengthen the craft. Give ambitious ideas the structure and shared responsibility they need to become films.
What making Chekavar taught me about bringing new technology close to an old craft.
Read the story ↗Life & observation · 2 min readWe ask about work, marks and plans. When did we last ask about the person?
Read the story ↗Direction & craft · 2 min readScale can draw an audience in. The people inside the story have to make them stay.
Read the story ↗Studio & ambition · 2 min readOn building Avium, sharing responsibility and giving a big dream somewhere to begin.
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Connect with Avium Studios ↗Mumbai, India · Working across borders