Abhay Koranne

Abhay Koranne is an award winning Indian screenwriter and a part of the BAFTA breakthrough cohort for the year 2023-24. His debut feature film was the superhero vigilante action-drama Bhavesh Joshi Superhero (2018), co-written with Vikramaditya Motwane and Anurag Kashyap, and directed by Motwane, that found cult success on Netflix and Disney+Hotstar. Abhay also conceived of, and wrote the story concept for the hugely successful series Rocket Boys (2022), which won him an Indian Television Academy (ITA) award and a Screenwriter's Association( SWA) award for Best Story. He has co-created a gritty international Young Adult series with frequent collaborator Vikramaditya Motwane and written the screenplay for the documentary Indi(r)a's Emergency (2023) that opened to rave reviews at the MAMI Mumbai film festival. As a creative consultant , Abhay has developed multiple projects for Roy Kapur Films and Andolan Films, working with diverse talent across genres. Abhay's next projects as lead writer are the ambitious, gritty, period crime series Matka King, for Amazon Prime Video and Roy Kapur Films, directed by Nagraj Manjule and starring Vijay Verma and a theatrical feature film to be directed by Vikramaditya Motwane, in addition to co-writing a thriller series for Netflix.