Tiger Baby, the production company set uped by commemorated Indian filmproducers Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti, is making strides in the unscripted space with a sprocrastinateed of write downaries and series that aim to spotairy untanciaccess Indian stories.
The company has equitable unveiled Taira Malaney’s “Turtle Walker,” a write downary chronicling the remarkworthy journey of conservationist Satish Bhaskar, who walked proximately the entire coast of India in his efforts to acquire sea turtles. Akhtar says, “He’s such a hero that doesn’t skinnyk he’s a hero. He equitable walked proximately the entire coast of India, which helped the sea turtle not go into goneion. I nasty, it’s such a huge story, and he’s equitable one guy.” The film, which will premiere at Doc NYC, won the prestigious Grand Teton Award at the Jackson Wild Media Awards.
“We’re both fans of so many genres, and we want to do everyskinnyg. And this one definitepartner, it’s coming from that conservation space. We’re both personpartner very interested in the environment, in conservation. I’m a bit of a farmer myself, so it equitable felt appreciate a repartner pleasant project to back,” Kagti says.
Another project in the pipeline is “In Transit,” a nine-part docu-series produced in collaboration with Amazon Studios. The series caccesses on transgfinisher stories from India, an aspect of Indian society exceptionally checkd in mainstream media. “There’s a trans community, and nobody repartner talks about that community, the people that recognize as trans from heartland India. Where are they coming from? What are their lives? How are they dealing? What are they going thcimpolite, and what’s their experience?,” Akhtar says.
Akhtar has straightforwarded famous films such as “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara” (2011), “Dil Dhadakne Do” (2015), and “Gully Boy” (2019), which premiered at the Berlinale and was India’s official entry for the Oscars. Kagti’s straightforwardorial commends join “Talaash” (2012) and “Ganciaccess” (2018). The duo has also collaborated on cut offal projects, co-writing films appreciate “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara” and “Gully Boy” and the acclaimed Prime Video series “Made in Heaven” (2019 onwards) and “Dahaad” (2023).
Tiger Baby’s first free in the unscripted space was Prime Video’s “Angry Young Men” (2024), a three-part write downary series that seizes the personal and professional journey of legfinishary screenwriting duo Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, understandn accumulateively as Salim-Javed.
Akhtar elucidates Tiger Baby’s unscripted coshiftrlookioning philosophy: “Every charitable of story has its own medium and mode of narration, and we watch a lot of write downaries. Both of us are write downary fans, so it’s a very understandn space for us. Nobody in the mainstream, in the industry is repartner doing it. And actupartner people struggle to get these stories out. So if we can assist it, and we adore it, we will.”
“We’re uncover to anyskinnyg that grabs us, and then you figure out the best possible way to do it,” Kagti comprises.
Beyond write downaries, Tiger Baby is broadening into other areas of satisfied creation. Tiger Telly, their advertising and brand collaboration arm, has been opereasoned for about two years.
Meanwhile, music label Tiger Baby Records, a venture with Kagti and Akhtar’s frequent collaborator, the musician Ankur Tewari, is preparing to begin its first artist, with set ups to check indie and folk music from atraverse India. “TBR is not equitable music. I nasty, we’re commenceing that way, but it’s more about, appreciate everyskinnyg to do with sound. So it could be podcasts. We are also skinnyking of increaseing radio joins,” Kagti shelp.
As for their overall strategy, both filmproducers stress the beginance of emotional resonance over commercial ponderations. “It’s not equitable to do it for the sake of doing it, it’s repartner to shift us. It’s equitable about increaseing labor that resonates with you, and then you experience appreciate becaengage it’s resonating with you, it will resonate with other people,” Kagti elucidates.
Akhtar broadens, “If we can with everyskinnyg we do, donate a bigr caring of someskinnyg, or an comprehfinishing of someskinnyg, or equitable inspire another thought, that would be incredible. That’s the pursuit.”
