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Broadway - COMPANY, BOMBAY DREAMS
TV - OUTSOURCED NBC | Madhuri 👀
THE LUNCHBOX @berkeleyrep | Mrs. Deshpande

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I’m in Seattle! My film SŪNNA (Listen) plays at Tasveer Film Center, Wednesday at 5pm 💃🏽Please come through and say hello 🥰
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FUN FACTS:
-Slide 1: It’s full circle to screen SŪNNA at Tasveer because (go to slide 2)
-Slide 2: This same project (formerly called “Tuner”) was a top 3 finalist for the Tasveer Film Fund in 2023! Although I didn’t win then, one of the Tasveer jury members landed me my manager, and one of the audience members at my pitch (Mira Nair’s Lead Producer of AMRI) is now one of my close friends and OG supporters across all my projects 🙏🏽
-Slides 3 & 4: After not winning Tasveer, I ended up winning a grant from CAPE to make this film, leading me to one of the most supportive communities & some of the best collaborators I’ve come to know and continue to work with today 🥹

And, due to a recent win and the loving support of nonprofit org Shine Global, SŪNNA is now Oscar qualified ✨✨✨

Persistence, discipline, and an open heart seem to carry me on a beautiful ride ❤️

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SŪNNA (Listen)
MORNING STORYLAND
We’re excited to present SŪNNA (Listen), directed by Radha Mehta, as part of iSAFF 2026’s MORNING STORYLAND shorts program!
When sudden hearing loss changes a young musician’s world, memory, touch and culture help her find her way back to music — and herself.
📅 Sunday, September 27
⏰ 12:30 PM
📍 Landmark Cinemas Surrey Guildford

🎟️ Get your tickets at isaff.ca/schedule

#iSAFF2026 #Sunna #ShortFilm #SouthAsianCinema #FilmFestival

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SŪNNA x Shine Global 🙏🏽

#Repost @shine.global
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The Shine Global Resilience Awards are about more than recognizing outstanding films. They help stories centering children and the issues they face reach wider audiences—and reach the people who can help turn awareness into action. Meet the remarkable films in this year’s awards and help us share their stories farther.

@kidslikemefilm @ceelowen @splnlss
@oneinamillionfilm @itabazzam @jackmacinnes @sheffdocfest @frontlinepbs @raneyaronson @impact.partners.docs @keofilms @dogwoof @biancagiaever @oradekorn @alejandrayvasquez @Samuelosborn @theboysandbeesfilm @a_c_knight @seanmweiner @povdocs @remainingnative @impaigebee @jess__epstein @nyicff @radhamehta @pallavisastry @reelabilitiesny @gabriella.canal @heartlandfilm @ediearnoldmovie @katwood222 @brysonalejandro @nantucketfilmfestival @oneday.shortfilm @yazmeenkanji @nfmla

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I officially have a High Schooler and a Middle Schooler…9th and 6th grade, here we come! Time is a thief. Everything needs to slow down. I’m not crying, you’re crying. 🥹🥹❤️❤️ #backtoschool

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H.A.G.S. (had a great summer) ☀️

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So honored our film SŪNNA is an award recipient at the @shine.global gala in NYC on September 29th! I’ll be there! I hope to see some of my NYC friends during my visit then ❤️
Ticket link in bio ✨

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We closed our lunchboxes at @berkeleyrep two weeks ago (@thelunchboxmusical)🥲

Everyone has to eat though soooooo I imagine the tiffins will be opened again at some point, haan? 🙏🏽

Note: Black lives still matter even if your feed is back to normal. The fight is not over. 🖤

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no wrong mistake 💌

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“I think we forget things, if we have no one to tell them to…”

Luckily, I didn’t have that problem with this lot.
We came. We told our story. We broke box office records.
And that’s all that matters.

@rachel.chavkin @riteshbatra_2666 @frereslazour @reshmagajjar @thetelseyoffice @nikdodani & Mark @berkeleyrep , thank you for bringing me on to this project that has changed me and my understanding of love, story telling, & human connection forever. My dear @arjunbhasincostume @giantmiles @nkoci @rockingthechogue @sheelaramesh @shanaferguson @kathleengallardo, the crew, & the music team: may your lunches always be delicious and warm.

This story is so special, and that has been made ample clear by all of you wonderful people who came & supported it, night after night.

It’s incredibly bittersweet to say goodbye to a show that has now been a part of me since November, but luckily… stories like these live on. So! To be continued.

Love,

Chavkin Ka Chand 🌙

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SŪNNA: part life story / BTS / appreciation for my team, craft & story all wrapped into this most in-depth review of this film😭 A milestone keepsake and reminder on my grid to keep going 🥹✨

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Last night, we closed @thelunchboxmusical at @berkeleyrep, and this show has truly made real life feel like a dream.

I don’t typically make sappy closing posts these days, but I’d be remiss to not acknowledge how significant this experience has been to me as a Desi artist and a South Asian-American.

What an honor it’s been to swing this production and get to be a part of a story that not only feels so unique and magical but is also so rife with beautiful, multi-faceted representation of Desi people. To know that so many people of South Asian heritage–younger and older alike–got to see pieces of themselves portrayed in a story that affords them nuance, in a way that western media so often does not, is a gift in and of itself. Likewise, to know that so many non-Desis got to see the full range of humanity of a people that have so often been obscured or exoticized to them has been a privilege and a long time coming.

Getting to share the stage with this unbelievably brilliant company has been a gift; getting to watch them work and play and craft has been a daily lesson in artistry, humility, and collaboration. And getting to know this show inside and out with an incredible team of fellow swings @hashini_a @aksharagunda @lvalayil has been a welcome and thrilling challenge. Being a swing is so hard, but they all make it look easy 🫶🏽

Thank you to the brilliant creative team @riteshbatra_2666 @frereslazour @rachel.chavkin @reshmagajjar @neeta_thadani @giantmiles @nkoci @sheelaramesh for gifting us and trusting us with this story.

This story is simultaneously heartwarming and heartwrenching, full of light and of sadness, and has that special specific-yet-universal quality we’re all always chasing after. Here’s to a long life for THE LUNCHBOX, and I hope you all get a chance to experience not only seeing this show but also an artistic endeavor that fills their soul as much as this one has filled and continues to fill mine. It’s love, it’s life, it’s… lunch ✨

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