Saurav Mohapatra

Saurav Mohapatra is a filmmaker and writer based out of San Francisco, California, USA.

His comic book work includes the ''Devi'' (#11 onwards), ''The Sadhu'' : "The Silent Ones" and Deepak Chopra's ''India Authentic'' from Virgin Comics. He is the co-creator/writer of the crime-noir comic book series Mumbai Confidential from Archaia. His recent work includes Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s Chander pahar into a graphic novel called ''Moon Mountain'' for Penguin Random House (India) and Sholay: Gabbar, an authorized prequel graphic novel for the iconic Hindi feature film Sholay.

He wrote all eight episodes of season one of the streaming series ''Nakaab'' (directed by Soumik Sen and starring Mallika Sherawat, Esha Gupta, and Gautam Rode) that released on MX Player on Sep 15, 2021.

As a filmmaker, he's known for his short film ''The First Rule'', that he wrote and directed. The First Rule won the award for "Best International Short Film" at the Port Blair International Film Festival, 2021. Provided by Wikipedia