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Pranay Meshram Biography: Age, Career, Family and More

F4U Editorial Desk • Updated October 1, 2026 • 6 min read

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ProfessionFilmmaker

NationalityIndian

Pranay Meshram Biography

Pranay Meshram is an Indian filmmaker who has worked as an assistant director across numerous Bollywood projects and made his feature directorial debut in

Early life and background

Pranay Meshram trained for a career in film after completing his formal education and entered the Bollywood industry to pursue directing and writing. He is Indian by nationality. Physical details listed in public profiles indicate a height of approximately 178 cm (5'10"), a weight near 70 kg (154 lbs), black hair and black eyes.

Career

Meshram began his career working behind the camera as an assistant director. Early credits include work as a trainee assistant director on Page 3 (2005) and as second assistant director on several films through the 2010s, including Lahore (2010), Mausam (2011), 3G: A Killer Connection (2013) and Queen (2013). He continued to build experience on sets and moved into first assistant director duties for the final India shooting schedules of Commando 3 (2019) and Sanak (2021).

He also gained experience on streaming projects, contributing as an assistant director to the web series Karenjit Kaur - The Untold Story of Sunny Leone (2018) and Hundred (2020).

Meshram expanded into directing and writing his own projects. He wrote and directed a short film, Nakusha... The Unwanted One (2017), and made his feature directorial debut with Akelli (2023), a film that brought him wider recognition. Meshram has described the origin of Akelli's script as inspired by an encounter with a woman from the Middle East who had escaped captivity by ISIS; the feature starred Nushrratt Bharuccha in the leading role.

Alongside narrative filmmaking, Meshram runs a production company called Wingtip Motion Pictures that has produced advertisements and corporate films, reflecting his involvement in commercial production as well as cinema.

Public profile

Publicly available profiles associate Meshram with practical, on-set roles and with writing-directing work. He is credited across multiple assistant director positions spanning trainee, second assistant director and first assistant director responsibilities, and has moved into directing and scripting his own films.

Personal life

Details such as Meshram's exact age, marital status and parents' names are not publicly specified in the available material. He is reported to enjoy visiting animal parks and has an affection for animals. He is also noted to partake in social drinking on occasion.

Latest updates

Meshram's most prominent recent credit is the 2023 feature Akelli, which marked his debut as a feature film director and writer and raised his public profile. Prior to that he directed a 2017 short and continued steady work in assistant directing on films and web series through the 2010s and into the early 2020s.
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Recent Work

Akelli

Feature film written and directed by Pranay Meshram, released in 2023; inspired by an encounter with a woman who escaped captivity.

2023
Nakusha... The Unwanted One

Short film written and directed by Pranay Meshram.

2017
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Career Highlights

  1. Worked as trainee assistant director on Page 3 (2005).
  2. Second assistant director on Lahore (2010), Mausam (2011), 3G: A Killer Connection (2013) and Queen (2013).
  3. First assistant director for India schedules of Commando 3 (2019) and Sanak (2021).
  4. Assistant director on web series Karenjit Kaur - The Untold Story of Sunny Leone (2018) and Hundred (2020).
  5. Made feature directorial debut with Akelli (2023).
  6. Runs Wingtip Motion Pictures, producing advertisements and corporate films.
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