Alankrita Shrivastava is an award-winning feature film and series director and screenwriter from Mumbai, India with a penchant for telling women’s stories. She likes to explore the interior world of women through her films. Most recently Alankrita has co-written the critically acclaimed, award-winning and hugely popular Emmy-nominated Amazon Prime Original series MADE IN HEAVEN Season 2, which was released in September 2023. She has also directed two of the episodes. She was a co-writer and a director of MADE IN HEAVEN Season 1 (2019) as well. The series has been a watershed for the portrayal of LGBQT characters and exposing the deep patriarchy that lies just beneath the surface of Indian society. 

Alankrita Shrivastava has written and directed a segment of the much-loved and critically acclaimed series MODERN LOVE MUMBAI for Amazon Prime Video, as well as a drama series for Netflix, called BOMBAY BEGUMS. Alankrita’s second feature film as writer-director, LIPSTICK UNDER MY BURKHA released in India in July 2017, and was a critical and commercial success. Acclaimed critically in India and internationally, LIPSTICK UNDER MY BURKHA has travelled to over 80 international film festivals. 

Alankrita has previously written and directed her debut feature film – TURNING 30 (2011). Alankrita has also written and directed a fiction short OPEN DOORS. She has worked on many Indian feature films in different capacities, including being the Associate Director on RAAJNEETI(2010) and the Executive Producer on KHOYA KHOYA CHAND (2007) and DIL DOSTI ETC (2007).