BAWAREE FILMS
A small home for films, stories and experiments in cinema.
Selected work
Stories made, completed and shared.
Neel, a blind romantic, and Javed, a man with a quiet, radiant depth, find their relationship at a crossroads when Neel shares that his mother wants to meet Javed. Fear grips Javed, but an unexpected idea transforms the moment of crisis into one of hope and possibility.
Part of Best of KASHISH 2025
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A frustrated young woman, Bably, hurls a hand-written letter out her window; a thousand years away, another woman, Cincinnati, catches it. When the two women meet, their connection is electric.
Official Selection — KASHISH Pride Film Festival 2026
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A deep dive into India’s underground hip-hop culture and the world of bboys whose acrobatic dance awes as well as breaks rigid social boundaries.
Produced by Films Division of India · Premiered at MIFF 2018
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Films and series currently taking shape.
Six interconnected stories unfold across Mumbai, tracing love, longing, intimacy and the unexpected ways people touch one another’s lives.
Meera and Arjuna, two people carrying old wounds, reenact the moments that broke them in an attempt to understand their past and find a way back to intimacy.
After losing her job, home, and boyfriend on the same day, a down-on-her-luck young woman begins living out of her second-hand car, surviving the streets through odd jobs while turning the eccentric characters she encounters into a breakout graphic novel.
A bionic robot and a gifted singer fall in love, challenging what it means to be human — and what love can demand.
After an accident leaves a woman with no memory, an unlikely journey through the lives of six people who once loved her begins — and changes the life of the man helping her.
When two young professionals are laid off, they turn their setback into an unusual new venture — a companions-for-hire service.
I am a filmmaker and screenwriter based in Mumbai, interested in stories about people, relationships and the strange, tender spaces in between.
I work across live-action and AI-assisted filmmaking, and am currently developing fiction projects alongside making short films and other experiments.
Sunita Malpani
For films, stories, collaborations or just to talk cinema.
[email protected]Mumbai, India