Shantanu Srivastava

Creator Context

Summary

Shantanu Srivastava is an Indian screenwriter and dialogue writer whose credits include Badhaai Ho, Luka Chuppi, Rashtra Kavach Om, Singham Again, and the historical series The Waking of a Nation. He has worked across family comedy, action, commercial drama, and period storytelling, with a career shaped more by mainstream Hindi entertainment than by a clearly defined ideological brand. In interviews, he has discussed writers’ pay, dialogue, language, and the challenge of humanizing historical events. His recent work on The Waking of a Nation has emphasized public awareness of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, colonial violence, and gaps in school history curricula, but these comments are framed as historical and educational observations rather than an ongoing activist campaign. There is no well-documented pattern of partisan advocacy, DEI activism, culture-war statements, or identity-first creative positioning.