She grew up watching movies and was enamored from the beginning. She moved to New York City to pursue a lifelong dream of making movies. After studying filmmaking, she proceeded to write, direct and produce several short films. Her first short film, THE GRAVEYARD SHIFT premiered at the LA Film & Script Festival in 2012. It was also screened at the Garden State Film Festival 2013, the Downtown LA Festival 2013 and was a finalist at the Katra Film Series 2013. Tenseth and Chauhan met at the 2013 Garden State Film Festival where both of their films were screening. Mandira currently has two comedy short films in the festival circuit and is writing her first feature film script. She resides in New York City.