M.S.N. Karthik

MSN Karthik was born on 11th July, 1992 in the Nizam city of India, Hyderabad. During his childhood, due to the frequent job transfers of his father, he had received schooling in various parts of India ranging from Hyderabad in the South to the extreme North-Eastern part of the country, Manipur. This exposed him to various cultures and languages of the country and helped him grow into an extrovert. During his graduate days at IIT Guwahati, he started taking part in Theatre, Music and Dance clubs regularly. This was the time when he watched five movies a day on a average. All this turned him into a movie-buff and triggered his passion for filmmaking to ignite. For many, films are a hobby. For some, they are a passion. But Karthik is a sort of a person, who always lived his life in 24 frames. Films were what shaped him since childhood. He says that he watched Rob Williams in awe, as he stood up on his desk to inspire his students to seize the day, in Dead Poets Society. Film seemed a powerful medium to communicate ideas and he wanted to become a filmmaker when he grew up. But in India, joining such a profession was not encouraged and he had to take up a software job after graduating from IIT. But the filmmaking bug in him never died. At 24, he started honing his skills by sheer desk research and built his own DIY filming & lighting gear. He made his first documentary film earlier that year, without any professional guidance but with unparalleled conviction to deliver his story. He realized that storytelling was what defined him and that he would want to pursue it forever. So, he started travelling across India in search of untold stories. From Bodh Gaya in the East to Rajasthan in the West and Himalayas in the North to Munnar in the South, he covered a lot of places and launched his first travel film series "My Great Escape". Such a vast country seemed very small in front of his quest to tell an engaging story. Today, he has established a production house called "adwhyta" in Hyderabad, which operates in the genres of travel, adventure, drama and documentary and aims to explore different ethnographies by understanding life in its purest sense.