What do you do when every major distributor slams the door in your face? For director Tanmaya Shekhar, the answer wasn’t to give up it was to take Nukkad Naatak to the streets and buy a caravan.
He left a stable data science career in the US for a dream that most called “impossible.” No stars. No studio. Zero industry connections. When the gatekeepers said no, the team did something unheard of: they took their story to the pavement, performing street plays across 12 cities and documenting their struggle in a viral series that exploded with 15 million views.
But the real mystery isn’t just how they survived, it’s how they managed to catch the eye of Imtiaz Ali and force their way onto a global stage like Netflix.
Watch the full story of their journey here:
