Roshan Sethi
Directing
Biography
Roshan Sethi is a Canadian physician and film director. He attended Harvard to study medicine and shifted towards filmmaking several years later. He released his debut film 7 Days in 2021. The romantic comedy film was based in part on his experiences as a medical professional in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sethi came out as gay at age 30. He is married to actor Karan Soni, who has been a credited cowriter and/or cast member in all of Sethi's films to date.
Known For
A tough, brilliant senior resident guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine.
The Resident
When Naveen brings his fiancé Jay home to meet his traditional Indian family, they must contend with accepting his white-orphan-artist boyfriend and helping them plan the Indian wedding of their dreams.
A Nice Indian Boy
A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.
Call Jane
Twelve-year-old mathematics genius Prem discovers his recently deceased father was a famous rapper and immediately sets out to learn more about his father’s life and passions. Empowered by imaginative hip-hop music-fueled fantasies, Prem is determined to find out if hip-hop truly is in his DNA.
World's Best
As if their pre-arranged date, organized by their traditional Indian parents, wasn’t uncomfortable enough, Ravi and Rita are forced to shelter in place together as COVID-19’s reach intensifies. Hopefully for their sake, opposites do indeed attract.
7 Days
A retired surgeon is abducted and forced to operate on a mystery patient. Though greatly outnumbered, her captors have overlooked her greatest weapon: 35 years of surgical experience.
The Surgeon
Rosalind Franklin's DNA structure research was unacknowledged. Watson and Crick used her data without credit, winning the Nobel Prize.