Making Flaw the New Normal: Rangita Pritish Nandy

To err is human & to be flawed is human, too.

Rangita Pritish Nandy has spent nearly three decades telling stories  that flawed, funny, complicated women aren’t just a niche, they are mainstream!

In 2025, she had three major releases – Ziddi Girls, The Royals, and Four More Shots Please! Season 4 – streaming across international platforms, proving audiences worldwide were hungry for audacious, original stories. For Rangita, it wasn’t just about numbers or charts; it was about validation.

“Breaking barriers in this journey has meant refusing to treat women’s stories as ‘niche’. The work has consistently been about putting flawed, funny, complicated women at the heart of big, commercial films and shows, proving they belong in the most mainstream spaces, not on the margins. This shift in who gets to be centre-stage has been the real leadership test for me,” says Rangita Pritish Nandy, president and creative director, Pritish Nandy Communications.

Her journey has been a rollercoaster of highs and lows. From airing her first television show on Sony TV to producing movies such as Jhankaar Beats, from battling censors over Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi to seeing Four More Shots Please! Earning an International Emmy nomination, Rangita has lived through every wave of technological and cultural change in entertainment.

“As many as 28 years is a long time to be doing anything, and yet it feels fresh and young. In the almost 33 years since PNC was founded by my father, we’ve straddled every wave of technology in the industry, very often ahead of the curve,” she quips.

Yet through grief and glory, persistence has been her mantra. “Keep at it,” she says, a lesson she believes applies to all leaders, regardless of gender. Stubborn, consistent, and childlike in curiosity, that’s the formula she swears by.

Today, PNC is a lean team of 19, nearly half of them women. On set, the numbers are even more striking: 70 per cent of crew members, from technicians to department heads, are female. It’s not just storytelling that’s female-first, it’s the entire ecosystem.

For Rangita, the journey is far from over. The universe of female-first stories is vast, and she’s determined to keep exploring it through romances, comedies, generational sagas, all infused with joy and life. “We’ve only just begun,” she says, with the conviction of someone who knows the mainstream has finally made room for women, and she’s not about to let that space shrink again.