A native of India, he graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India with a Master's in Economics. After working with a consulting company for a year, he switched to filmmaking. He's written, directed and produced a number of award winning narrative shorts. He is the writer/producer on an upcoming feature length documentary Farmers for America, premiering fall 2017, along with co-producing a narrative feature The Wisdom Tooth, shooting in Oct 2017.