Having family members who cope with a long history of problems, one among them being mental illness, I was always fearful of myself going through the same traumatic experiences. Growing up as an immigrant, I faced many challenges with myself as it seemed like I was allowing the world to judge me for being an Indian child. My insecurities manifested into something worse as I joined college and that is where I started to use my love for cinema as means to fuel my creativity for writing many personal, experimental screenplays.