Writing

Tanika Gupta

Known for

Writing

Credits

7 titles

Known for

Bideshi poster
NR

Days before his death, a Bengali man has a prophetic dream about his journey towards enlightenment.

Bideshi

1995

National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes poster
NR

An ambitious Michelin-Star chef, Queenie is used to having the last word. But when her children notice gaps in her memory and her grip on reality loosening, they are faced with an impossible choice. As Raj, Gopal and Kamala battle to reconcile their life-long duty to their mother, the ramifications of their decision take on a heartbreaking permanence.

National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes

2025

A Doll's House poster
NR

Niru is a young Bengali woman married to an English colonial bureaucrat – Tom. Tom loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous plaything to be admired and kept. But Niru has a long-kept secret. And just as she thinks she is almost free of it, it threatens to bring her life crashing down around her. Tanika Gupta reimagines Henrik Ibsen's classic play of gender politics through the lens of British colonialism, offering a bold, female perspective exploring themes of ownership and race. Performed between September 6 and October 5, 2019 at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London, UK (filmed October 5, 2019).

A Doll's House

2020

No artwork available
NR

Zabeen is a young woman who remains a child. One day she meets a boy on a motorbike.

The Fiancée

1999

Flight poster
8.5

Set among a South Asian community in the north of England, the film follows the journey of a teenager after she is discovered by her father as having fallen passionately in love. The story follows youthful naïveté, heartbreak, reckoning, and courage against the hold of toxic patriarchy.

Flight

1997

No artwork available
7.0

Elizabeth Costello is invited to Appleton College's annual literary seminar as a guest lecturer. Despite her stature as a celebrated novelist, she opts not to give lectures on literature or writing, but on animal cruelty.

The Lives of Animals

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Behind the camera

Bideshi poster
NR

Days before his death, a Bengali man has a prophetic dream about his journey towards enlightenment.

Bideshi

1995

National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes poster
NR

An ambitious Michelin-Star chef, Queenie is used to having the last word. But when her children notice gaps in her memory and her grip on reality loosening, they are faced with an impossible choice. As Raj, Gopal and Kamala battle to reconcile their life-long duty to their mother, the ramifications of their decision take on a heartbreaking permanence.

National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes

2025

A Doll's House poster
NR

Niru is a young Bengali woman married to an English colonial bureaucrat – Tom. Tom loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous plaything to be admired and kept. But Niru has a long-kept secret. And just as she thinks she is almost free of it, it threatens to bring her life crashing down around her. Tanika Gupta reimagines Henrik Ibsen's classic play of gender politics through the lens of British colonialism, offering a bold, female perspective exploring themes of ownership and race. Performed between September 6 and October 5, 2019 at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London, UK (filmed October 5, 2019).

A Doll's House

2020

No artwork available
NR

Zabeen is a young woman who remains a child. One day she meets a boy on a motorbike.

The Fiancée

1999

Flight poster
8.5

Set among a South Asian community in the north of England, the film follows the journey of a teenager after she is discovered by her father as having fallen passionately in love. The story follows youthful naïveté, heartbreak, reckoning, and courage against the hold of toxic patriarchy.

Flight

1997

No artwork available
7.0

Elizabeth Costello is invited to Appleton College's annual literary seminar as a guest lecturer. Despite her stature as a celebrated novelist, she opts not to give lectures on literature or writing, but on animal cruelty.

The Lives of Animals

—

Banglatown Banquet poster
NR

Middle-aged Muslim Bangladeshi women struggling for their freedom as they leave the familiarity of their Bangladeshi community and set out on a voyage of discovery.

Banglatown Banquet

2006