About Chitrayana Creating Greatness Together

Our Story

Vision & MISSION

Our Team

Our Story

We are a team of recognised experts in our respective fields, working in the interests of our clients and delivering tangible results — every time. Chitrayana represents a hybrid between an in-house marketing team and a traditional creative agency. We commit to being with our clients often to build an effective working relationship that operates quickly and reliably, designed to deliver superior customer experiences with intelligent insights to educate and engage audiences.

Our engagement with the entertainment industry brings the best stories from cinema, theatre and more…

Vision

Using our varied portfolio to differentiate our content services, we strive to develop a strong creative, innovative, delightful and a compelling experience for our users and clients, and in the process make the world inbound.

Mission

Tending to obsess over customers, not competitors, being transparent and often defying conventional ‘wisdom’ and strongly believing that we are a perpetual ‘work in progress’ is a habit at Chitrayana.

Meet Our Team

 

Vachan Shetty

Director

Vachan Shetty completed his Masters in Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA. He got his Bachelors of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the National Institute of Engineering, Mysore. He has been leading Vachan Electricals Private Limited as Joint Managing Director, a Total Turnkey Electrical Contracting Company. He has a collective experience of over 15 years of working with and guiding a large workforce. From 2009, he ventured out into the world of entertainment as a founder and creative producer at Innostorm Entertainment Group. This gave him an opportunity to pursue his personal passion in films. His role involves discussing various script ideas, assembling a team of technical and creative professionals, and ensuring delivery of a quality product. Co-fund, manage budgets, schedules, and production resources. Now he has a collective experience of over a decade, with production of more than 10 feature films, TV shows and short films in various Indian languages. Many of his film productions have been selected to various prestigious National and International Film Festivals.

Abhaya Simha

Director

Abhaya Simha is a two-time National Film Award winning filmmaker. An alumnus of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). In his career spanning over 13 years, he has directed four feature films (Gubbachigalu – 2008, Shikari – 2012, Sakkare – 2014 and Paddayi – 2018) and over 300 video films of various lengths on environmental issues and cultural heritage. Abhaya has also been visiting faculty at BITS Pilani, Manipal Media School and many other prestigious institutions. He has been a jury member for Filmfare 2015 for Kannada films. He represented young Indian filmmakers at Berlin International Film Festival. His script Bhamini was selected to the NFDC Script lab. Another script, Paddayi was selected for the South Asian Script lab in Nepal. He was selected for the Junior Fellowship by the Centre for Cultural Resources and Training, Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Abhaya also headed the Kannada Cluster of VOOT, an OTT platform by Viacom18. Abhaya has been active in cultural documentation through the Sanchi Foundation. Sanchi is a not-for-profit organization that documents audio-visual heritage under the creative commons licensing.

Pradeep Haradi Pai

Director

Pradeep Haradi Pai is the Chief Creative Officer of Sudhee Networks Private Limited an E-media company based in Bengaluru and was established in January 2001. Before that he was the Editor of “alwaysindian.com” a web-journal for Indian Diaspora. A film-maker and an e-media content creator, Pradeep has directed and/or produced nearly 800 audio-visual programmes such as corporate videos, docu-presentations, infomercials, Ad-films, TV serials and other commercial venture productions. He regularly works with governments, not-for-profit organisations, social entrepreneurs, corporate entities in the public and private sector. With a Diploma in Computer Science and Engineering, a passionate film-maker, Pradeep is instrumental in developing strategic and tactical plans to enhance the company’s creative process. As a Director of the Sudhee Networks, Pradeep is responsible for all action steps right from creative concept to implementation. A social activist and an active enthusiast of media activities, Pradeep Pai has widely travelled across India. He is interested in the analysis of issues of national and social importance, educational development and management, socio-economic empowerment and appropriate technology. Pradeep Pai is the Management Council Member of with “Yuvaka Sangha” a youth empowerment organisation. Yuvaka Sangha has been recently nominated as a Member of National Youth Advisory Council, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Govt. of India.

Omshivaprakash

Head, Technology

Omshivaprakash is a FOSS evangelist, Wikipedian, Mozillan, Blogger, Open Source contributor from Bengaluru where he has been involved in community building activities around Kannada & Technology. His engagements like Gnu/Linux Habba, Arivina Alegalu & Hejje and has engaged young minds towards language technology. He writes technology articles in kannada on his blog Linuxaayana. Founder member of Sanchaya – (a collective exploring the possibilities of using technology in linguistics & literary research) and Sanchi Foundation (“Sanchi” is a not for profit organisation working for the documentation of audio-visual heritage.). Vachana Sanchaya – https://vachana.sanchaya.net is one of the very much structured linguistic research tools built in Kannada through Sanchaya’s initiatives. With over 18+ years of experience in the field of Information & Technology, he has played a significant role as a trainer, Infrastructure Management Specialist, CTO, Director for Business Development & Technology etc. He has currently penned a book on Free Culture & Licensing called – Creative Commons Kannada 101. Apart from being active around the technology sphere, he has immense interest around literature, photography, trekking, cycling.

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