I am Anand Gandhi, here for an AMA on r/bollywood. Ask me anything about my films 'Ship of Theseus' and 'Tumbbad', my productions 'An Insignificant Man', 'SHASN', and my biggest undertaking yet - 'The MAYA Narrative Universe', co-created with Zain Memon

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I made Tumbbad and Ship of Theseus. I produced An Insignificant Man, the board games SHASN and Azadi, the VR platform ElseVR and the OTT show OK Computer. Most of you said nice things about the films, games and everything I've had to share so far. :)

Here is something I have been creating with my long collaborator Zain Memon for the last four years. It's called MAYA. You can check out the announcement trailer of the Maya Narrative Universe at https://youtu.be/ywuPOFHYWZ8?si=xH9DUPviyRieQCER

MAYA is an expansive narrative universe unfolding across films, games, books, graphic novels, and live experiences. Join MAYA here: r/Maya_lore (/r/Maya_lore)

It begins with MAYA: Book One (Seed Takes Root):

“We have cultivated the Maya tree,” the ancients said. “Now it thinks for us, dreams for us. We have domesticated it, tamed it to do our bidding.” I always suspected it was the other way around.

Hiranyagarbha

The Divya Trials have been announced. Billions will compete. One will ascend to godhood.

In every future predicted by Maya's vast network, the outcome is certain: the Garuda scion Tarkash will win. The Divyas cannot allow this.

Kshar has rehearsed the assassination a hundred times in Maya’s simulations. In seventeen minutes, a single fruit will begin a cascade that ends in a riot. The plan is perfect.

Every angle mapped. Every move predicted. Every breath choreographed.

Except one.

Yachay, a young manushya, harbors a dangerous secret. He has never seen Maya. And Maya hasn’t seen him either.