Alankrita Shrivastava
Biography
Alankrita Shrivastava is an Indian screenwriter, director, and producer. Having made her debut as a director in 2011, she has since won accolades such as the Grand Prix at the Créteil International Women's Film Festival and a nomination for a Filmfare Award for the critically acclaimed film Lipstick Under My Burkha.
Shrivastava studied filmmaking at Jamia Milia Islamia in New Delhi and later moved to Mumbai. She began working as an associate director for Prakash Jha. After assisting Jha on notable projects including Apharan (2005) and Rajneeti (2010), Shrivastava made her directorial debut with the 2011 film Turning 30.
She later received widespread praise for the black comedy Lipstick Under My Burkha, which she directed and wrote. The film earned her, among other accolades, a nomination at the Filmfare Awards.
Shrivastava was the creator, writer, director, and showrunner of Bombay Begums, an urban drama series revolving around five Indian women across several generations. The show was produced by Endemol Shine India and Chernin Entertainment and released on Netflix in 2022.
Shrivastava was a writer and director on several episodes of Amazon Prime Video’s Modern Love: Mumbai, the Mumbai chapter in the Modern Love anthology series. The romantic comedy show, which was produced by Pritish Nandy and released in May 2022, is based on the American anthology series of the same name, also on Amazon Prime.
The anthology focuses on six tales of human connection and different kinds of love, which are unrelated to each other but connected in their universal themes.
Shrivastava currently lives and works in Mumbai. In an interview with the Bangalore Mirror, she mentioned that she practices Buddhism. Her father died in 2016 after a prolonged illness.
