ABOUT Ameyukti
AMEYUKTI is an independent film production company dedicated to free-spirited story telling, honesty, and originality. We want to create stories in the land where we grew up for a growing international audience. Founders Roopa Rao and Sahadev Kelvadi have traveled the world to understand and master the art of storytelling and filmmaking.
We make independent, free-spirited films.
Roopa Rao
Roopa Rao, a global citizen rooted in her small-town upbringing, believes storytelling is the only way to transmit what truly matters to humanity. Before venturing into films, Roopa graduated from a Master’s Program in Commerce and Finance and was once an IT professional. She quit her job as a project manager in Infosys to pursue her undying passion for film. Roopa is an alumnus of the Asian Academy of Film and Television, New Delhi.
GANTUMOOTE:
Roopa previously wrote, directed, and produced the acclaimed feature film GANTUMOOTE (Baggage) for which she was nominated for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Writer at the Critics Choice Awards in Mumbai, as well as many other accolades for directing and screenwriting including at the Critics’ Choice Awards in Karnataka, the Ottawa Indian Film Awards, the Chitravani Film Awards in Bangalore, South Indian International Movie Awards and the New York Indian Film Festival in 2019. Roopa Rao is also popularly known for India’s first same-sex web series ‘The Other Love Story’.
THE OTHER LOVE STORY :
The series won international awards for Best Director at NY Web Fest and Best Story at the Toronto Web Fest with 7 other nominations. In addition to these awards, the series has won hearts around the globe, surpassing 80 million views on YouTube.
You may watch THE OTHER LOVE STORY here: ‘The Week’ Magazine honored Rao as “Woman of the Year” in 2016 for their year-end special edition.
International Shows and Films:
She has produced, directed German and French documentary feature films/Travel and Documentary series as well as Rao recently appeared as a protagonist in a German documentary from Arte TV about stories taking place during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Roopa began her film journey as a co-director of the Kannada and Tamil feature films “Only Visnuvardhana” and “Kuraiondrumillai.”
Sahadev Kelvadi
Sahadev Kelvadi is an award winning Writer, Director and Cinematographer from Bangalore, India. He is a graduate of the MFA Film Production program from The NYU Tisch School of the Arts, NY. He was a nominee of the Volker Bahnemann Cinematography Award (2016). He is the co-founder of Ameyukti Studios. Ameyukti Studios’ first feature film, “Gantumoote”, had its premiere at The New York Indian Film Festival, 2019, where it bagged the Best Screenplay Award.
Sahadev was the film’s Director of Photography and Co-producer. He is also the Director of Photography of the popular Indian Web Series, Metropark. Kenda, a kannada feature film, currently in post production, is written, directed and photographed by Sahadev.
Contact Us:
Email id: contact@ameyukti.com