After postgraduate training at Jamia Mass Communication Research Centre, New Delhi, Nishtha Jain pursued Film Direction at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune prior to launching a career in independent cinema. She is now an internationally-recognized filmmaker based in Mumbai best known for Gulabi Gang (2012), Lakshmi and Me (2007) and City of Photos (2004). Her films interrogate lived experience at the intersection of gender, caste and class. They explore the political in the personal and uncover the mechanisms of privilege.