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Nitya Mehra is an Indian film director and screenwriter based in Mumbai. She is best known for Life of Pi, the Oscar winning film and Mira Nair's The Namesake and Baar Baar Dekho.[1][2][3][4]

Nitya Mehra
Nitya Mehra at Made in Heaven Screening, Mumbai in 2019
Born	(1980-01-31) January 31, 1980 (age 42) Amritsar
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Welham Girls' School
Occupation	Film Director / Executive Producer / Writer
Known for	Life of Pi, The Namesake, Baar Baar Dekho, Made in Heaven
Spouse(s)	Karan Kapadiya (m. 2015)

Early life

Mehra was born in Amritsar into a Punjabi family. Her mother was a fashion designer. She studied at Welham Girls' School, which is a girls boarding school in Dehradun. After completing her schooling she went on to do Literature from Delhi University, post which she did a continuing studies program in Film Production and Direction at New York University.[5]

Career

Nitya started out her career with being a PA on a film in New York called 3 am. Eager to return to India she began assisting film makers in India and learning the ropes. As an assistant director she worked for the movies like Lakshya, The Namesake, Don, Little Zizou, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Life of Pi. She worked as an Assistant Director for many years on various Indian and international films.[6]

Nitya's first big directorial project was on the Indian franchise of the hit TV show 24 (Indian TV series) season1, which aired on Colors TV at the time.[7]

In 2016, Nitya directed her first feature film Baar Baar Dekho starring Sidharth Malhotra and Katrina Kaif, co-produced by Excel Entertainment and Dharma Productions.[8]

In 2019, she showran, executive produced and directed a web series Made in Heaven aired on Amazon Prime Video, starring Arjun Mathur, Sobhita Dhulipala and Kalki Koechlin.[9]

She is one of the directors and writers of a film, Chand Mubarak which is part of an Indian Hindi-language anthology Unpaused, released on Amazon Prime Video in 2020. She got critical acclaim for this film.[10]

Nitya's upcoming projects that include "Made in Heaven Season2" is set to release in 2021.[11]

Filmography

Films

Year	Movie	Note(s)
2006	The Namesake	Assistant Director
	Don
2008	The Other End of the Line
	Little Zizou
2012	Life of Pi
	The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2016	Baar Baar Dekho	Director
2020	Unpaused	Director (Chaand Mubarak)

Television

Denote shows that have not yet been released

Year	Television Show	Notes
2013	24
2019	Made in Heaven	3 episodes
2022	Made in Heaven Season 2

Awards and nominations

• MIH nominated for Critics Choice Awards 2019[12][13]

Personal life

Nitya Mehra is married with Karan D. Kapadia and they have a son.[14]

References

External links

• Nitya Mehra at IMDb

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