ASCENSION
ASCENSION
Television (Half-hour)
· Drama · 34 pages
A foes to friends story revisited through the lens of two South Indian teenage boys who find themselves entangled in the rigid world of Bharatanatyam trying to balance tradition and modernity. A world that makes them question ideas of masculinity, family, and their dreams.
Written by
Nishima Gupta and Sonali Mehta
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Nishima Gupta is an emerging Indian-American writer. She has written a pilot based off a true story of her life experience with divorced parents and is developing a South Asian dance show. Her dream is to portray different experiences of her culture beyond what has been typically shown on screen and spark conversations within the South Asian communi...
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Nishima Gupta is an Indian-American writer and filmmaker who aims to portray different experiences of South Asian culture beyond what is mainstream and spark conversations within the community that have long been comfortable in the dark. Gaining attention for her first pilot INDIAPENDENT, based on her life experience and wildly popular Huffpost article “My Indian Parents Got Divorced and It Was the Best Thing That Happened to Us”, she is now developing a South Asian dance show with producer Aanch Khaneja. Daylighting as a Showrunner’s Assistant to Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (DYNASTY, GOSSIP GIRL, THE OC), Nishima is seeking literary representation.
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