Asad Hussain

Asad Hussain is a writer working across film, streaming platforms, audio and theatre, with credits spanning internationally acclaimed features, landmark series and new writing for the stage.

His feature credits include Hotel Salvation, which received widespread international acclaim and multiple festival awards; Bombay Rose, the critically acclaimed, animated feature, celebrated for its distinctive hand-painted style and storytelling; and additional screenplay and dialogue work on Bajrangi Bhaijaan, one of the most successful Indian films of the last decade.

His streaming and audio work includes Leila, Netflix India’s first dystopian original series; Dabba Cartel, a Netflix crime drama set in Mumbai; and Psycho Saiyaan, a 19-part audio drama for Audible. Alongside screen work, his theatre writing includes Dust, developed in collaboration with Lyric Theatre, Belfast; Naqqaash / Knifemaker, written as part of the Royal Court Theatre led Writers’ Bloc programme; and Song of the Swan, a play set against the political fault lines of Kashmir.

His script for The Postman, set in Kabul in 1991, was selected for Locarno Film Festival’s Open Doors programme and received the ACF Script Development Fund at the Busan International Film Festival. The film is currently in production. He is also developing original film and series projects, including Wapsi (The Return), developed through the NFDC Screenwriters Lab and intended as a writer-director project. Asad’s Work has been supported by the MacDowell Fellowship (USA), Goethe-Institut Mumbai, NFDCand Sarajevo Film Festival.

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