I've been writing award-winning fiction for years. My immigrant novel Go Home was fast-tracked for the 2016 elections by Knut House Press. It was shortlisted worldwide by Stanford University Libraries for the William Saroyan International Prize. A compressed version was a national finalist for the ScreenCraft Cinematic Story Contest. Former Golden Globe winning movies' producer Allan Marcil suggested we co-write the screenplay. The script for Go Home has won Platinum Remi at Houston Worldfest International Film Festival, Gold Laurels at Depth of Field IFF, and in Europe recently Best Feature Film at Venice Under the Stars IFF 2024.
Go Home Drama Logline 1: The U.S. backlash to the Iran hostage crisis blurs the lines, for a Parsi Indian graduate student, between his peace-loving Deadhead neighbors and violent, xenophobic rednecks. Logline 2: Caught in the U.S. backlash to the Iran hostage crisis, a Parsi Indian grad student, Viraf, coming of age in campus town Newark, Delaware, battles contemporary Cowboys-versus-Indians xenophobic violence, oppressive authority, and the powerful tug of his motherland India—personified by his ex-girlfriend Maya, while his flower-child, band-groupie neighbor Ali embodies the counterculture love-and-peace pull of early-’80s America—on a transnational quest to find home, his “perfect place.”
University of North Florida
(1991-1993)
University of Delaware
(1981-1983)
Indian Institute of Technology
(1976-1981)