Awedacious is a production company led by Apoorva Bakshi, one of the producers of Mehta’s International Emmy-winning Netflix series “Delhi Crime,” and Monisha Thyagarajan, who served as associate producer on the show.

Srishti Bakshi’s documentary “Women of my Billion,” which has just been announced as the winner at the UN SDG Action Awards in their Changemaker category, has been boarded by Chopra Jonas and her company Purple Pebble Pictures. The film narrates the plight, dreams, rights and fight against all forms of violence, that unify the women of today’s India, via Bakshi’s epic foot journey of 3,800km over 240 days, from Kanyakumari (South India) to Kashmir (North India). Chopra Jonas will serve as presenter for the film, which is in distribution negotiations.

“Purple Pebble Pictures was created with the desire to magnify new talent with culturally specific, diverse and relevant stories that deserve a platform. Aligning with production companies like Awedacious allows us to fulfill our ambition of bringing these hyper specific and disruptive stories to market — making them more accessible to a global audience, and that’s very exciting to us especially in the streaming world,” says Chopra Jonas

Kashyap is in pre-production on an untitled true crime series that is bound for a global streamer. “It’s a very exciting true crime series. I’m a big fan of what they pulled off with ‘Delhi Crime,’ ” says Kashyap

In all, Awedacious has 19 projects in development, one of which, “Wakhri” (“One of a Kind”), a Pakistani Urdu-language feature that previously participated at Open Doors at Locarno in 2018 and Cinefondation’s Atelier at Festival de Cannes 2019 is at Busan’s Asian Project Market this year. The film, by Iram Parveen Bilal (“I’ll Meet You There”), will follow a widowed school teacher in rural Pakistan who becomes a viral sensation overnight when she accidentally unleashes her unabashed opinions on social media.

Other projects in development include “Dhanya,” a Malayalam-language cybercrime slasher thriller starring Parvathy Thiruvothu and directed by Leena Manimekalai.

Also in development is Kamal K.M.’s “Alhamdulillah!,” a Malayalam-language feature inspired from the life of transgender activist and educator Aneera Kabeer.

Completed films beginning their festival journey include Aizahn Kassymbek’s “Madina,” a co-production with Kazakhstan, where a single mother, dancer, and breadwinner struggles to take care of her old grandmother, a withdrawn younger brother, and a two-year-old daughter; Sivaganesh’s “Paraasakthi” (“The Goddess”), where an actor embarks on a emotional journey sparked by the loss of his mother; and Ajai Vishwanath’s immigrant story “Starch.”