In active development, Anil is producing a feature film, THE BANKER, about the Nobel Prize winner and micro-lender, Muhammad Yunus, to be directed by Marco Amenta (The Sicilian Girl), and written by Massimo Gaudioso (Gomorrah), Sergio Donati (Sergio Leone’s screenwriter, Once upon a time in the West, etc). Anil has written the book and is producing a stage musical, ONE DAY, along with the co-writer and financier, Greg Mitchell. Anil has also recently been hired to write an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet set in South Asia.
Anil participated in Film Independent’s 2011 Producer’s Lab for, ETHEL, a controversial biopic of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, written by Yon Motskin. This summer he participated in the 2011 Producer’s Guild Diversity Workshop for a television pilot, TRIADS, about Chinese gangsters in New York, which he wrote with his partner, Carla Blair. In 2009 and 2011, Anil was awarded the Tribeca Institute & Sloan Foundation Screenplay Award & Grant for a biopic on the scientist, Marie Curie, A NOBLE AFFAIR, co-written with Kathryn Maughan. This award included attending the Tribeca Film Festival and a reading of the screenplay.
Anil’s writing awards include the New York Foundation for the Arts Geri Ashur Screenplay Award and Grant for an epic World War II story about the Gurkha soldiers of Nepal. Other awards include various short film awards. He was a producer on the internationally successful short musical film Pretty Dead Girl (Sundance, AFI and Tribeca Film Festivals) directed by Shawn Ku.
Anil earned a Bachelor of Arts from New York University’s, Tisch School of the Arts, Film and Television Department. Before forming Fictitious Features, he worked at some of the most innovative feature film companies. He started in the development department at James Schamus and Ang Lee’s Good Machine (Sense and Sensibility, Ice Storm, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon). After a brief stint at Killer Films, he worked for the writer/director, Adam Brooks (French Kiss, Practical Magic, Wimbledon). Moving to Los Angeles, Anil freelanced as a story analyst for Working Title (About a Boy, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Billy Elliot, Elizabeth), and as the assistant to Tom Sternberg (Under the Tuscan Sun, Lost Highway, Talented Mr. Ripley, Apocalypse Now). He then worked as the Director of Development for the writer/director, Kimberly Peirce, (Boy’s Don’t Cry, Stop Loss). There, he managed projects already in development while scouting for new material. With Peirce Pictures, he had the fortune to interact with some of the best writers and producers in Hollywood.
