A new-age film studio
Stories, woven.
Epic drama, mythology, history and documentary for audiences in India and around the world, made with the newest filmmaking tools and an old storyteller's heart.
In Indian theatre, the sutradhar holds the thread of the story. We carry that thread from India to the world.
The studio
Sutra Films makes long-form drama, documentary and mythology for three channels of our own, and brand films, commercials and corporate films for clients.
Every story starts with its sources. Every film is written, directed and edited by people, with the latest generative tools where they serve the picture.
About the studioNow showing · A Gods & Kings Original Series
The Odyssey
Ten years of war. One more night to get home. Odysseus, King of Ithaca, against monsters, gods and the wine-dark sea.
Episode 1 complete · premieres on Gods & Kings
Selected work
Now showing
The Odyssey
View →Ten years of war. One more night to get home. Odysseus, King of Ithaca, against monsters, gods and the wine-dark sea.
Shraap
View →One garland, one insult, one curse, and heaven loses everything. The story that sets the churning of the ocean in motion.
The Pentagon's UFO Files
View →What 450 declassified records actually show, from Project Blue Book to the Navy videos.
Brand & corporate
Your film could be next.
Make a film with us
Start →Brand films, commercials and corporate documentaries with the same craft as our own stories.
Shorts
A minute of the story
Vertical cuts from our films. Tap to play with sound.
Our channels
Three labels, one studio
Each label has its own audience and its own rules. All of them are Sutra Films productions.
Gods & Kings
The world's great myths as drama series, starting with Homer's Odyssey, and cinematic journeys into how people lived in the past.
Watch on YouTube →Mahagatha महागाथा
The Puranas, the epics and India's past as full Hindi films, each with its source text named and its gods drawn as the texts describe them.
Watch on YouTube →Unsealed
Declassified files told from the documents: archival footage first, reconstructions labelled, every claim traced to a record.
Watch on YouTube →For brands
The same craft, for your story
We bring the scale of an epic to brand films, commercials and corporate documentaries.
Brand films
Your story, told with the weight of cinema: origin stories, manifestos and campaign films that people choose to watch.
Commercials
Spots built for attention in the first three seconds and remembered after the last, for TV, OTT, YouTube and social.
Corporate & documentary
Films that explain what you do and why it matters, with research and sources behind every claim.
How a film gets made
Research first. Then the thread.
Research
Sources and facts first. No script is written before the research is.
Script
A cold open, a three-act story and a voice that fits the audience.
Look
One look bible per film; characters and costumes locked before a frame is made.
Image & sound
Pictures, voices, music and sound design, each checked against the script.
Edit & deliver
Cut, graded and mastered, with versions for every screen and language.
Work with us
Have a story worth telling?
Brand films, commercials, documentaries and collaborations. Tell us what you are making.