Special Interview - Archita Mandal

society, culture · EN

Guest host Sunil Sadarangani — producer, filmmaker, media strategist, and frequent film festival juror — sat down with Archita Mandal, the Founder and CEO of UpendNow, an AI production pipeline she conceived to take creative and marketing teams from a brief to a production-ready plan. UpendNow covers script, storyboard, previz, shot list, and schedule in one connected workflow, giving directors, studios, and corporate marketing teams a multi-engine AI workspace that compresses weeks of pre-production into days while keeping every creative decision in their hands. An award-winning filmmaker herself, Archita brings a highly unique background to this space. Following a corporate career spanning cloud security and networking, she created UpendNow to solve the logistical bottlenecks she experienced firsthand on set.