Brahmin Bulls

DIRECTOR'S PROFILE

MAHESH PAILOOR
DIRECTOR/CO-WRITER 
Mahesh Pailoor is an award winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles. A graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Mahesh went on to continue his studies as a directing fellow at the American Film Institute. While at the AFI, Mahesh was awarded the prestigious Franklin J. Schaffner Fellow Award for the direction of his thesis film, Still Life, which went on to screen at over 20 international film festivals, winning awards at the Heartland, Angelus, and Worldfest Houston film festivals to name a few. Mahesh is an alumnus of the Berlin Talent Campus, Film Independent’s Project Involve and Screenwriting Lab, and the ABC/DGA Directing Fellowship. Along with directing narrative projects, Mahesh has also produced and directed award winning commercials and branded content under his production company Nuclear Tribe. Brahmin Bulls is his first feature film.

ANU PRADHAN
CO-WRITER/CO-PRODUCER !Anu Pradhan is an MFA graduate in Directing from the American Film Institute. A Fulbright Scholar in Kathak dance, she began her career with a love for storytelling through live performance that quickly expanded to include film. Prior to her time at AFI, Anu lived in Bombay, India, where she trained in classical dance, acted in films and on stage, and spearheaded a commercial production company’s television division by producing non-fiction programs for national networks. She wrote and directed the Sloan Award winning short film Dharini, which was selected by AFI to represent its Conservatory at the Cannes Film Festival, among other festival screenings around the world. Anu was the writers’ assistant on the NBC Universal/USA Networks show, The Starter Wife starring Debra Messing. She is an alumnus of Film Independent’s Project:Involve. Brahmin Bulls is her first produced feature length screenplay.

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
As children we grow up under the notion that our parents are infallible; that they are the perfect models for us to aspire to. But as we get older and have families of our own, the realization sets in that they are only human; that they were once just like us, young, hopeful, naïve, and completely capable of messing up.

BRAHMIN BULLS is a story about that reconciliation. It is a story about a father and son learning the truth about each other for the first time as adults. It is a story about family bonds and what it takes to both break them and mend them. With this film, we hope to depict an honest relationship between a father and son that is intimate in nature yet universal in scope. 

Mahesh Pailoor
Director/Co-writer