Our Story
Natak Pictures
Stories that travel.
Natak Pictures is a creator-led content studio founded with a singular belief: strong stories build enduring value.We operate at the intersection of fiction, branded storytelling, and short-form narrative formats, creating content that is culturally rooted yet globally relevant. From award-winning short films to scalable digital series and brand-led narratives, our work is designed to travel across platforms, audiences, and geographies.
Over the years, Natak Pictures has collaborated with leading brands, platforms, and broadcasters, while simultaneously building an original fiction slate focused on IP creation, ownership, and long-term monetisation. Our content has garnered millions of views, festival recognition, and critical appreciation—establishing us as a studio that balances creative integrity with commercial sensibility.
As we expand, our focus is on developing premium Indian stories for global and NRI audiences, exploring new narrative formats, and building partnerships that enable sustainable, IP-driven growth.
Rahul Bhatnagar is an award-winning filmmaker and content entrepreneur, focused on building scalable, IP-led storytelling businesses.
He founded Natak Pictures in 2021 with the objective of creating a studio that develops, owns, and monetises original narrative IP across films, digital series, and emerging content formats. Under his leadership, the company has consistently delivered fiction-driven projects that combine strong creative authorship with platform and audience relevance.
Rahul’s work has received national recognition, including honours associated with the Dadasaheb Phalke Awards, along with multiple other industry and festival awards. His projects have demonstrated the ability to travel across platforms, attract diverse audiences, and establish long-term creative value—key pillars of Natak Pictures’ IP strategy.
Currently, Rahul is in pre-production on his next feature film, a milestone project designed to strengthen Natak Pictures’ long-form cinema slate while expanding its original IP portfolio. Parallelly, he is developing multiple fiction properties aimed at domestic and global (NRI) audiences, with a focus on repeatable formats and long-term exploitation potential.
As Founder & Director, Rahul oversees content strategy, IP development, and strategic partnerships, with a clear mandate to scale Natak Pictures into a globally relevant, creator-led studio.