Devansh Saraf at the Culver City Film Festival, in a black shearling jacket in front of the festival backdropDevansh SarafCulver City Film Festival, Dec 2025
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Devansh Saraf

DEVANSH (early 20s). From New Delhi. Founded a production banner at sixteen and used it to make a film about the question nobody in the room would ask. Now in the BFA Film & TV programme at NYU Tisch, class of 2027, after a pre-college summer at USC in 2022.

Writes and directs quiet family dramas; reads everything that comes through a story department; has carried call sheets across the set of a $200-million mythological epic. Splits the year between New York and Delhi, with Mumbai, Hyderabad and Los Angeles in between.

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Everywhere he has worked, in the format every crew reads before dawn.

Call Sheet · Production: Devansh Saraf
Shoot days2020 →
Unit baseNew Delhi · New York
LocationsMumbai · Hyderabad · Los Angeles
BannerRKS Entertainment
CallProductionDept / PositionNotes
2020 – now RKS EntertainmentNew Delhi Founder & Creative Director Independent production banner and YouTube channel. Produces festival-driven shorts, develops original IP, runs budgets and crews from concept to distribution. Three films: X or Y, The Silence Between Us, Memory Exercise.
2026 SP Media GroupLos Angeles Creative Intern Detailed script coverage on incoming film and series submissions: premise, structure, characters, market fit. Recommendations to the development team to shortlist projects.
2025 RamayanaMumbai Trainee Assistant Director India's costliest film ever ($200 million), a mythological epic with VFX by Prime Focus. Coordinated logistics, call sheets and script flow across departments; drew storyboards with the art, camera and VFX teams.
2025 Roy Kapur FilmsMumbai Creative Intern Siddharth Roy Kapur's company, behind India's Oscar entry Last Film Show. Research and coverage on high-budget film and series development; sourced real-life subjects (including the Sagar Thakkar money-laundering case) and researched the Hindi remake of A Perfect Man.
2024 Annapurna StudiosHyderabad Creative Intern Script coverage across genres for the Akkineni family's production house: story structure, character arcs, commercial potential. Pitched new story ideas in early development.
2023 – 2027 NYU Tisch School of the ArtsNew York BFA, Film & Television Undergraduate programme in writing, directing and producing.
2022 USCLos Angeles Pre-College, Storytelling Strategies Summer programme at the University of Southern California.
Weather: variableNearest hospital: ask the 1st ADWrap: never