Ayesha, a Muslim house-help, reluctantly takes on a one-day job at a Hindu household. She wants to be upfront about her identity, but when she introduces herself, the owner of the house mishears her name to be ‘Asha,’ a common Hindu name. With each minute spent in the house, Ayesha learns just how the "other side" perceives you, when they think you're one of them.
Nihit Bhave started his career as a film journalist and critic with the Times of India and Hindustan Times. After a career in journalism, he assisted prolific Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap in Netflix India's first show, Sacred Games S01 and the anthology film, Lust
Stories. He then switched to screenwriting with Sacred Games (S02) in which he wrote two episodes. His feature screenwriting credits include Kashyap’s Netflix drama, Choked, and the sci-fi thriller Dobaaraa.
He next wrote and directed an indie short film, Phir Kabhi, starring
Amruta Subhash and Manav Kaul, which competed at the Bengaluru International Short Film Festival, India's only Oscar-qualifying festival. Ayesha marks his second directorial venture. 
The New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) is the oldest, most prestigious film festival screening premieres of feature, documentary and
short films made from, of, and about the Indian subcontinent in the Independent, arthouse, alternate and diaspora genres.
