Rakesh Palisetty is an Indian theater director and emerging filmmaker based in New York, known for bold, genre-defying storytelling and a striking visual style. His work interrogates power, cultural identity, and the fragility of human connection, blending raw emotional depth with sharp wit. Rooted in a postcolonial, postmodernist lens shaped by his upbringing in New Delhi, his acclaimed stage productions including a cult adaptation of Twelve Angry Men have toured widely across India. Now expanding into film, Palisetty brings a distinctly theatrical sensibility to the screen. His work oscillates between raw minimalism and hypnotic spectacle, creating worlds that feel both intimate and epic. Unapologetically experimental, he treats form not as novelty but as a response to a fractured world. At its core, his storytelling is an unflinching exploration of death, faith, longing, and the in-between, crafting work that resists easy categorization.