An award-winning screenwriter-producer, Sunil specializes in thrillers based on true events with female leads in unconventional roles and loves to give them twist endings.
His screenplays and TV shows, including the feature “THE INFIDEL BRIDE” and TV Pilot “THE URBAN NAXAL,” have been finalists in several international screenwriting contests.
He is a veteran TV executive producer with two decades of crafting stories for international brands like National Geographic, Sony Entertainment, ESPN and MTV.
In 2014, he started his own company, Orchid Room Productions, which he envisioned as a multi-ethnic writer's room. He produced his first short film under The Kyo Project (the social impact arm) titled, "ALMOST NORMAL."
He has a bachelor’s in engineering from IIT, Kharagpur, a master’s in TV and Film from Newhouse School, Syracuse, New York and a master screenwriter certificate from ScreenwritingU. He is also a member of the Screenwriters Association, Mumbai, since 2020.
He loves to sing karaoke, strum his guitar and bake sourdough pizzas for his preschool boys!
FAKE CALL Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller ⋄ Mystery An American Indian interpreter in Afghanistan returns to India as a language trainer at a call centre to infiltrate a billion-dollar fake calls scam to expose the secret cartel behind it.
RUSSIAN SNIPER Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller ⋄ Action A female CIA sleeper agent escapes the Russian prison to stop a KGB Commander with personal vendetta from secretly launching a tactical nuclear warhead to win the war on Ukraine.
THE INFIDEL BRIDE Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller A pregnant British reporter goes undercover as an ISIS bride to find her missing husband who is now an infamous ISIS fighter known for his beheadings of Infidels.
BORN IN SPACE Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Sci-fi A space experimental mission in 2025 goes horribly wrong when the ISS is destroyed and the sole survivor is a woman in labour, hurtling through space in a cargo ship, 400 km above the earth. How does a tourist, self-birth in space and return safely to earth?
INVISIBLE GRAVES Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller A rookie journalist working on a story of missing persons accidentally discovers a covert operation within the Anti-Terror Squad that turns their probe into a suicide mission.
THE SIX-POINTER Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Comedy A misfit undergraduate student at IIT unwittingly forays into the mafia world to become the new don’s son-in-law.
THE URBAN NAXAL Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Drama A civil engineering professor secretly plots to blow up sensitive government sites, to become a top Naxal recruit in the city.
Quarterfinalist - BIG BREAK
(2022)
Special Jury Award - ISC@JIFF 2022
(2022)
Quarterfinalist - BIG BREAK
(2020)
ScreenwritingU
(2018-2022)
Syracuse University, Newhouse School of Public Communications
(2000-2002)