Screenwriter | Filmmaker | Educator
Scripts
Sur writes female led and young adult dramas with levity. Her characters are often extracted from their comfort zones, to explore uncharted territories.
THE LAST EMBER
Feature - Drama/Comedy/Female-Led
Logline: When a traditional East Indian immigrant, fails at her last attempt to give her only child a sibling, she takes the biggest chance of her life, by auditioning for a reality competition for moms, in order to define herself beyond motherhood.
WRONG TIME WRONG PLACE
Half-Hour Comedy Pilot
Logline: After a tenure line was wrongfully taken away from her, an Asian American professor of theatre, quits her job of twelve plus years, and pivots to stand-up comedy in New York city, in order to make sense of her place in this world.
SHILLONG TIMES
Feature - Adaptation/Young Adult/Historical Fiction
Logline: A coming of age story of a fourteen year old Bengali boy whose life is turned upside down over the course of one year in the late 1980s when communal tensions erupt in the hill station of Shillong , located in North East India.
REAL COOL KID
Short
Logline: When a nerdy middle-schooler is the only one in his class to not have a phone, he accepts the challenge to excel at Nat-Geo Bee, to impress his father, only to realize that he does not need a phone to be ‘cool.’
NANI’S TALES
Episodic Series for Young Adult Television
Logline: Loving and feisty, Nani, helps her nine-year-old granddaughter embrace her Asian American identity, by narrating her own real-life struggles as a woman freedom fighter during pre-independent India.
Work in progress
WOMANHOOD
Short - Drama/Female-Led
Logline: When two friends exchange their journey of infertility at a gym, they BUMP into an old friend who is now pregnant and wants the baby clothes back. Does jealousy win over womanhood?
THE WHITE LOTUS
Spec Episode
Logline: When a past liaison suddenly reappears into Dominique’s life to blackmail him at the White Lotus hotel, he must conjure up clever schemes to keep it away from his family, especially Albie.
QUEEN OF HEART
Short - Drama/Female-Led (in post-production)
Logline: When the daughter-in-law of an upscale, abusive Mumbai family is deprived of a bedroom for years, she finds a quirky way to defy the generational norms of the household…and feel empowered.
YELLOW
Short, Drama
Logline: In 2019, Kolkata, a lonely and quirky, septuagenarian plans meticulously, in anticipation of her daughter’s arrival from the US, only to learn hours before that all flights got cancelled.