Scripts

Roma writes young adult and female driven dramas with levity that are a cross-pollination of her immigrant experience of living in the US for twenty years and her childhood in India.

THE ROCK WITHIN

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.

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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.

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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.

CORE

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?

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QUEEN OF HEART

Short - Drama/Female-Led (in Development)

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.

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