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About Aditya Kripalani

Aditya Kripalani is the author of the bestselling novels BACK SEAT and FRONT SEAT. He graduated from the FTII Pune in film screenwriting in 2004 and since then has been the Creative Head of IDream Production for 4 years and Percept Picture Company for a year. He has been credited as a 'Script Consultant' on TAHAAN which won 11 international awards including the highest honors at the stuttgart film festival, Tiburon film festival and Olympia film festival and JOGWA which won 37 state and national awards including the president's award. He has also worked as a copywriter at Lowe Lintas and written columns for 'Man's World' and 'Yuva' magazine.
Latest Posts | By Aditya Kripalani
4 films that inspired me to write Tikli and Laxmi Bomb
8 years ago

4 films that inspired me to write Tikli and Laxmi Bomb

Tikli and Laxmi Bomb is about two sex workers who end up forming a cooperative to bring sex workers together to try to run the sex trade for women and by women.
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AUTOHEAD HAS BALLS!
8 years ago

AUTOHEAD HAS BALLS!

Autohead could easily serve as an inspiration to remember the point that drama creates its own engagement
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THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF BEING A DIRECTOR
8 years ago

THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF BEING A DIRECTOR

Aditya Kripalani shares the highs and lows that there are to expect from your first time as a feature film director.
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ADs who don’t want to make films. Actors who don’t act.
8 years ago

ADs who don’t want to make films. Actors who don’t act.

Aditya Kripalani shares his encounters with assistant directors playing the AD game and actors who do everything but act.
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FROM FAIL TO DISTINCTION IN A 100 MINUTES
9 years ago

FROM FAIL TO DISTINCTION IN A 100 MINUTES

The story makes us feel the complicated emotion of a mother who has to teach her daughter tough lessons sometimes at the expense of her immediate happiness.
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Art Is Also Meant To Disturb
9 years ago

Art Is Also Meant To Disturb

Each scene in Chauranga has the ability to disturb you, to evoke an eerie feeling, dread, fear, to make you ill at ease.
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THE FORCE COULD BE IN BETTER HANDS.
9 years ago

THE FORCE COULD BE IN BETTER HANDS.

Even though STAR WARS may be in pretty good hands. The Force Awakens is clearly made as a sequence by sequence nostalgia trip.  Right from fighter pilots cruising through the death …
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TOLERANCE TOWARDS CINEMA. TOLERANCE TOWARDS STARS
9 years ago

TOLERANCE TOWARDS CINEMA. TOLERANCE TOWARDS STARS

Let us be tolerant towards both stars and cinema who disturb us, make us think, sometimes shock us, teach us, & also, along with each emotion, entertain us.
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THINK BEFORE YOU SHAMEPOST
10 years ago

THINK BEFORE YOU SHAMEPOST

We must retain free speech and fight for voices that are unheard but does that justify beating down the rights of voices that are being heard?
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Dear Aamir, PK ho kya? – An Open Letter To Aamir Khan
10 years ago

Dear Aamir, PK ho kya? – An Open Letter To Aamir Khan

300 ‘Crore ke nashe mein’, ‘Biggest hit of Indian Cinema’ ke nashe mein? You’ve proved your point. The one star who was associated
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