Kathalaya
కథాలయ

katha, a story. ālaya, the home where it is kept.

Stories rooted in this soil, written for today's screen.

We are a Hyderabad story house. License a finished script, commission a new one, or bring us on to direct it with our own crew.

Our traditions are not old stories. They are the ones still keeping us together.

మన మట్టి కథలు, ఈ తరం తెరకు.

Rooted

Every story starts from our culture, our families and our values. We write about the people and places we know, with conviction, not borrowed trends.

Felt, never preached

Cinema has to entertain first. The meaning sits inside the story, so the audience walks out changed without being told to change.

For this generation

Fast, sharp and commercial, built to hold a Gen Z viewer and a whole family in the same seat, in Telugu and for all of India.

Three ways to work with us

We work with producers as partners. Pick the level that fits your project.

License a story

Take a finished, registered script from our catalogue, with synopsis, screenplay and pitch material ready.

Commission a story

Tell us your star, budget and audience. We write an original story built around them.

Make it with us

Hire the writer-director and our own technical crew to take the story from page to release.

The stories we keep

Each story is registered and ready to pitch. Open one to read the idea. Full scripts are shared after an NDA.

    How a deal moves

    1. Pick a story

      Browse the catalogue or ask us for something new.

    2. Sign an NDA

      We protect your plans and our writing equally.

    3. Read and meet

      You get the full script, and we sit down to narrate it.

    4. Agree terms

      License, commission or a full-crew package, in writing.

    The people behind the stories

    Malladi Venkata Surya Prakash

    Writer-director, co-founder

    Chief assistant director on the released feature Fight Maha. Writer-director of the crime-thriller short V100, winner of 60+ awards including third place at the World Student Film Festival out of 14,838 entries. SWA registered.

    Partner's name

    Writer, co-founder

    Add two or three lines about your partner's credits and the kind of stories they write.

    Behind us is a working crew of cinematographers, editors and technicians who have already made films together.

    Have a project in mind?

    Tell us what you're looking for. We usually reply within a day.