SPECIALS | Book Launch + Talk | NAKED a novel | Aditi Mediratta & Michaela Talwar

Aditi Mediratta started her writing career as a crime reporter for the India Today daily, Today. From writing about real crime to fictionalized reel crime, her first release as an associate writer was Once Upon a Time in Mumbai. This was followed by The Dirty Picture, Once Upon a Time in Mumbai 2, Azhar and Badshao. After graduating from Prague Film School in 2017, she wrote and directed short films like Elevated and Kaboom. She has also written the scripts for two experimental shorts Rajkumari Woke and The Girl in the Pink Frock which were acclaimed at festivals around the world. She has co-authored a book, The Stranger in Me, which was published by Om Books in 2019. She is working on a biopic on the
life of an iconic film star from the 1970s.

Michaela Talwar is a trained journalist and multidisciplinary artist. She is the co-founder and creative director at Harkat Studios, a boutique arts studio and alternative performance space in Versova, Mumbai. As part of her work at Harkat, she is an arts enabler who has produced, curated and facilitated over 400 theatre shows, film festivals and exhibitions in various forms over the past five years. She also leads the creation of marketing video content for various film studios and OTT platforms like Netflix and Amazon where she produces viral videos, ads and title sequences, and poster designs. She has co-produced several short films, including And Sometimes, She Loved Me Too, (Love), the Ek Minute series, and directed various short form content such as Intellectual Masturbation and Rajkumari Woke. In 2015 she published
Empowerment through Audiovisual Storytelling in Rural India. A polyglot, she originally hails from Germany and has lived in many places, but nothing shaped her quite as much as Mumbai has.