BIOGRAPHY
Peripatetic. Raconteur. Oddball
A Kochi-ite by heart, a Mumbaiker by choice, Niranjana Hariharanandanan is an author , showrunner and Creative Director with over 12 years of experience across OTT, Television and films. She was formerly an award-winning Content creator & Executive Producer with Discovery Networks Asia Pacific, and creative director with the MullenloweLintas group. She currently heads unscripted content for Juggernaut Productions in Mumbai and consultant Creative director for Curativity, a part of Pitchverse Platforms. She's currently showrunning a feature docu-film for Docubay India, and working on two co-productions with Applause Entertainment.
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Niranjana is also a published author (adult and children).
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When she's not at her day-job, she's busy scratching off places on her scratch map, cooking up a storm of original recipes, reading her way through Japanese fiction ( in Nihongo) and teaching Japanese. She's also a student of Japanese (N3).
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She delights herself with puns in her pen, and passion in analog photography.
She has 67 pairs of shoes and hopes to beat Imelda Marcose one day. Her Short fiction has been published in JaggeryLit, The Punch Magazine, ChaiCopy, The Book Smugglers Den, The Soup, Hope Catapult , The Indulge and Arre Reads
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Her Novel Dirty Sheets is available on Amazon.com and Children's book 'Shiro's Friends save the Day' with Pratam Books.
She is currently working on her second novel.
ASIAN
ACADEMY CREATIVE AWARDS
ASIAN
TELEVISION
AWARDS
2019
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Asia and National winner of original format - Queens of Comedy 2018
Best Documentary Film on Social Awareness
Planet Healers 2019