2024 · Doc feature
96min
The Long Wait.
Three-year documentary on the women of Sassoon Dock. Cut and graded over eight months.
Editor & Colorist
ReelHouse · MUBI India
Reel · 2024
Film Editor · Colorist
Aaryan Pillai.
Goa, IN
Slow Take
Tue – Sat
§ I The Cut
A cut is a sentence — the second you can hear it, you can fix it.
A standing rule of the suite
§ II Selected
Cuts we held the room for.
2023 · Music video
5min
Aankhon Mein.
Single Steadicam take through Marine Drive at sunset. One master, one alt, vertical for socials.
Editor
Lifafa
2023 · Short doc
22min
Counter Service.
The women of the small-parcel desk at Bombay Central Post. Subtitled Marathi · Hindi · English.
Editor
ReelHouse · IFFK
2022 · Long-form ad
4min
One Cup.
Three-part anthology for the Tata Tea Premium Strong rebrand. Cinema, broadcast, social.
Editor
Tata Tea · W+K India
2023 · Brand film
90sec
Worn Pages.
Three monologues from second-hand 501 owners across Bombay, Bangalore, Manipur.
Editor
Levi's India
2024 · Sales reel
3min
House Music · sizzle.
Three-minute sizzle cut from the first 60 hours of the feature. Locked financing in a week.
Editor
Plan B
§ III On the bench
What's on the timeline now.
In the conform
Final cut & grade.
96-minute doc on the women of Sassoon Dock. Three-year shoot, eight months in the assembly.
The Long Wait · feature doc · 2024 — Now
First cut · 78 min
Story edit.
Four DJs across Bombay, Berlin, Goa. Cutting 320 hours down to a 78-minute first cut.
House Music · doc · 2024 — Now
On rotation
Picture editor, on call.
Standing chair for long-form brand and music video work. ~12 pieces a year.
ReelHouse · 2022 — Now
§ IV The Kit
We edit on Resolve. Grade in the same room. Conform at sunrise. The rest is sound, story, and the long slow process of holding the cut until it stops asking for changes.
DaVinci ResolveAvid Media ComposerPremiere ProFinal Cut ProPro ToolsFrame.ioEDL · XML · AAFStory editSubtitle craft
§ V Marks
Festivals, labs, quiet honours.
2024Best Edit nominee · MAMI Mumbai — The Long Wait · 2023Official Selection · IFFK · Kerala — Counter Service · 2021Editing Fellow · Sundance Edit & Story Lab — Park City · 2022Best Long-Form · Goafest — Tata Tea · One Cup · 2017PG Diploma · Editing · FTII Pune — Honours ·
§ VI End slate
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