Hi — I'm Adi.
Until 2021 I had a job I was good enough at and a commute I could do half asleep. I had also been saving for years towards something I could never quite describe. In the end I stopped saving for it, bought a one-way ticket, packed a 35-litre bag and left with a camera I did not yet know how to use properly.
What happened next was not a montage. I ran out of money in the fourth month and came home. I took freelance work for a season, learned to edit properly because I could not afford to pay anyone else to, and went back out with a plan I could actually pay for. That second attempt is the one that stuck.
Since then I have filmed in the places listed on this site and written up the ones worth writing up. Ten days down the Andaman coast became Thailand Diaries. Five passes between Manali and Leh became Road Trip to Ladakh — including the two days of altitude sickness, which are still in the cut, because taking them out would have made the whole film a lie.
The one thing I have completely changed my mind about is pace. I used to do nine countries in a month. Now I do one, and I stay long enough to stop being surprised by it. The films got better and so did everything else.
Mumbai, India is home base. I edit here between trips, usually jet-lagged, with the next route half-planned on the wall.
