Jahanara Bhargava

Jahanara Bhargava grew up in advertising and theatre. Rehearsals and backstage in a theatre were home. At fifteen, she was assisting her father, legendary ad man Bugs Bhargava Krishna on ad films  After design school, she worked as a copywriter at Ogilvy Mumbai before moving on to become as an assistant director to Amole Gupte in feature films. Jahanara co-founded Ten Years Younger Productions with Seema Mohapatra, and together, they’ve produced acclaimed projects like Barot House, Posham Pa, Nail Polish for Zee5, and Dil Dosti Dilemma for Amazon Prime Video. They have also co-produced the independently funded Pune Highway. Currently, they are working on the post-production of their experimental film Pigeon. Jahanara, an avid book lover is on the verge of starting up a publishing venture with Seema. She has just edited Murder in the time of Jazz, a crime novel written by Bugs.