I spent seven years as an executive producer at National Geographic Channel, running its largest in-house team and evaluating third-party pitches from the buying side. I'm also a working screenwriter — seven feature scripts and five TV series to date, three of them paid assignments; runner-up at Jaipur International Film Festival 2024, Special Grand Jury 2022, twice a Big Break quarter-finalist — so I take notes as often as I give them. Now I read your script, and tell you exactly what a buyer will think, which pages prove it, and what to fix first.
Email me your script PDF attachment, any tier below, to sunilrpappu@orchidroomproductions.com — I reply within one business day.All INR prices are inclusive of GST. Overseas payments in USD. No-cost EMI (3–12 months, cards and UPI) available on the Package and Deck tiers. Terms, payments & cancellation policy.
Producers & production houses: I don’t sell documents to producers — I partner on projects. Pick one from your slate: I rebuild its pitch deck at no upfront cost; if the project is commissioned or set up, I take a story/development credit and a pre-agreed fee then. Email me the project.
Too many writers are sold shortcuts — “packaging,” “access,” “introductions” — by people who can’t improve a script’s chances. The industry is consolidated and opaque; there is no shortcut through that wall. The one thing a writer controls is the craft on the page. I spent six years studying it and seven years on the buying side watching it decide outcomes. The read is priced like the professional work it is, and capped — six scripts a month — so every report gets the same attention. The point is still fewer good scripts dying of bad guidance.
And coverage is only step one. The longer goal is Orchid Room itself: a writers’ room where every writer’s voice is heard, where we shape unique stories together — and where we hold the line on what our writing is actually worth, not the pennies being offered for vertical dramas and quick-turnaround content. Pragmatic about the industry, hopeful about the craft. If that sounds like a room you’d want to be in, the door is a script.
Sunil Pappu. Seven years executive producer at National Geographic Channel — 100+ hours produced, third-party pitches evaluated on the buying side. Commissioned work: a five-season OTT thriller series bible (GuruFilms, 2022–23) and a documentary-series bible (Bottom Eye, 2019–20). Paid story editor on the London feature Odile (May Filmworks, 2021).
As a writer: seven feature scripts and five TV series written to date — one feature and two series as paid writing assignments. Runner-up, Jaipur International Film Festival 2024 (Fake Call); Special Grand Jury, Jaipur 2022 (Invisible Graves); two Big Break quarter-finals. MA, Newhouse School, Syracuse University. Master Screenwriter Certificate. Member, Screenwriters Association, Mumbai.