Siddharth Deshpande

THE HELSINKI PROJECT...

DESCRIPTION: A Documentary exploring the distorted conditions of the Indian Public Education System since Independence, and the shady political games that are responsible.

Script-Writer and Assistant Director.

1^st Oct, 2017 - 31^th Jan, 2019

Assistant to MR. RAJAT ARORA

DESCRIPTION: Development of Two Television Miniseries’.
GENRE: 1. Comedy of Errors.
2. Crime-Family Drama.

Assistant Writer

1^st Apr, 2017 - 1^st Jul, 2017

ONCE IN A BLUE MOON.

DESCRIPTION: A science fiction fantasy story of multiple characters struggling to adapt after a Rogue Planet hits the moon and disturbs its balance with the Earth. The challenge is to change to survive on this new Earth while you also want to hold on to the old world order.

Feature Film Screenwriter

1^st Nov, 2015 - 31^th Jan, 2017

Multiple Independent projects.

Project types: Worked with several upcoming directors, who were struggling with their ideas, as a co-writer re-writing their screenplays.
NAMING A FEW:
1. A superhero story, where an addict, mythically gets a superpower, forcing him to learn to be a selfless hero, or else his mythic power goes rogue and kills him from within.
2. A government school teacher is struggling to make one of his students want to learn, but the problem is that the village he is posted in, culturally gives no importance for getting educated.

Co-Writer

1^st Jan, 2015 - 1^st Jun, 2019

SAVDHAAN INDIA.

An ongoing Television Series on LIFE OK India, which depicted episodic thriller stories, based on horrifying crimes experienced by people all over the country.

Assistant Writer

1^st Sep, 2014 - 1^st Dec, 2014

ADALAT.

DESCRIPTION: Courtroom Drama. Stories of KD Pathak solving unsolvable mysteries.

Assistant Writer under the well-known writer, Mr. Ashok K Banker

1^st May, 2014 - 31^th Aug, 2014

BODY TRANS!…

DESCRIPTION: Story of a self-considered ugly boy, who finds an ancient artifact buried underground his village house. Reading the Sanskrit script on it, the boy realizes that it is a Body Transforming machine. It transforms your body into a different one. Transforming into a handsome jock, he begins his mission of impressing the hottest, most popular girl of his college, who has never even considered his existence before. In this new body, he even succeeds. But, in the process, our boy ends up falling in love with a completely different girl, who he really connects with. But the problem is, this new girl cannot be categorized as strictly beautiful or hot.

Writer

1^st Sep, 2012 - 30^th Apr, 2013

DHARA AUR ABHAY..

DESCRIPTION: A Television Bible for a teleporting Superhero who wants to fight Indian political corruption, ends up struggling with feelings of corruption within himself..

Writer

1^st May, 2013 - Present

THRILLER.

PROJECT TYPE: A feature Film Screenplay on a story assigned by Mr. Anjum Rajabali.
DESCRIPTION: Story of an elder brother who goes to America to find his younger brother, only to discover that the younger brother has gotten himself involved in some serious Mafia shit. The elder brother has to rescue the younger brother from a situation where hitmen from two high-profile crime families of U.S are on the younger brother tail because they think that that younger brother has conned them for money and is responsible for the death of their bosses’ son. The elder brother, an uneducated farmer from an Indian village, a genuinely good man has to turn himself into a dangerous badass, learning how to kill without hands shaking, for him to rescue his brother and keep his younger brother safe.

Writer

1^st Sep, 2012 - 1^st Feb, 2014

REFERENCE FRAMES

DESCRIPTION: A scientist obsessed to prove the correctness of the big bang theory, goes on a space mission to discover the otherwise. His inability to accept the limitations of the origin-theory he considers absolute, drives him into a state of madness which manifests in jeopardizing the safety of other scientists with him on the mission..

Writer

1^st Aug, 2012 - 31^th Aug, 2012

MERE TO GIRIDHAR GOPAL

PROJECT TYPE: Feature Film Treatment adapted from a Marathi book titled ‘Mere to Giridhar Gopal’.
DESCRIPTION: Story of a woman named Veena who is married to a god-worshipping doctor named Kedar. As they grow old together, Kedar’s insecurity towards the idea of God having the supreme control of a human body and not a doctor, grows eccentric, which Veena has to deal with. The frustration that Veena has to face, because of Kedar’s self-proclaimed failure as a doctor and infatuation towards God, increases as their marriage begins to turn into a family. At the end, after losing their first child even before its birth, Kedar decides to quit his meaningless Sansari life and leave for Wanwaas, taking Sanyas. The story is about Veena struggle, to let her husband go, and to let her marriage end.

Writer

1^st Jul, 2013 - 31^th Aug, 2013

ENFORCED.

DESCRIPTION: A story of a woman in depression refused suicide by a broken Chair.
PURPOSE: Diploma Film.
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awR0ouyPTsk

Writer-Editor-Director

1^st May, 2014 - 31^th May, 2014

A PIERCING NAIL AND A FALLEN PEN

DESCRIPTION: Story of a shy schoolboy dreaming of becoming popular right in the middle of the class, until the teacher asks him a question.
PURPOSE: Whistling Woods Foundation Film.

Writer - Director

1^st May, 2012 - 31^th May, 2012