Aleya Sen

Creator Context

Summary

Aleya Sen is a filmmaker, producer and co-founder of Chrome Pictures, with a career spanning advertising, feature films and streaming content. Her work repeatedly favors socially observant stories that challenge conventional family and gender expectations. The advertising campaign The Silent National Anthem featured students with hearing and speech disabilities using sign language, earning major industry recognition. Her feature work includes Dil Juunglee, Badhaai Ho, Lust Stories 2 and Trial Period. In interviews, Sen has said she is drawn to stories that trigger conversation, and has specifically discussed the taboo around older couples’ intimacy and pregnancy in Badhaai Ho. Trial Period centers on a single mother and a child’s unconventional attempt to find a father figure, continuing her interest in nontraditional family structures. The record suggests a representation-conscious, conversation-driven creative outlook, but not a partisan or activist public persona.