Committed to bringing inspiring, topical and evocative Indian stories to the world, the team at Open Air come with a history of leading highly acclaimed and award-winning fiction and non-fiction films, TV series and documentaries.
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After her post-graduation in Film and Media, Priya started working with an Advertising Production Company as the production head and went on to produce high-end commercials for Multinational brands. Passionate about cinema, her move to feature films was a natural fit. The 2008, critically acclaimed film, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! was her first film as an Executive Producer.
She went on to produce her second film – Love Sex aur Dhokha, in 2010. It was also the first digital film to get a theatrical release in India. Shanghai, the compelling Indian adaptation of Z, was her third production. Released in 2012, the film was a co-production between PVR Pictures, DBPL and NFDC. In 2015, she founded Open Air Films
Priya Sreedharan
Ruchir Joshi is a creator, producer, director and entrepreneur. After his early stints at UTV, Channel V and FTV, more than two decades ago, Ruchir co-founded Via Earth Films, a premium factual non-fiction production house in 2005 and created award-winning, long-form non-fiction projects for top broadcasters like BBC Worldwide, CNN & Discovery Network.
In 2016, Ruchir shifted focus to creating content for the internet generation as the President & Head of Content at Culture Machine, one of India’s largest digital media companies. After two years of managing some of the top digital brands including Being Indian, Put Chutney and Viva, he started and ran CM Studios, a long-form fiction & non-fiction Development and Production House inside Culture Machine. He is currently the show-runner for an Amazon Prime Video drama series and a Producer for another drama-comedy for SonyLIV.
Ruchir Joshi
After his graduation, Wasim ran the front & back house of a restaurant in San Francisco before moving to India in 2005 to work in films. Starting off with commercials his first break into long format production came three years later with the National Award-winning film Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! as a Line Producer.
He further went on to assist director Dibakar Banerjee for multiple TVC’s over the next few years. Shanghai was his second film as an Executive Producer immediately followed by Akshay Kumar’s Boss in 2013 for which he also directed the title music video. Garnering enough experience in all formats of filmmaking, in 2015, he joined as a partner in Open Air Films.