Mehak Mirza Prabhu, born in 1982, is a writer and story teller from Mumbai, who creates fictional stories in multiple languages. The audio story telling through voice modulations is one of her unique strength. She is a blogger, script writer, social enthusiast also; who runs an online story telling school named ‘Jhumritaliaya’, dedicated towards merging art form of classic story telling with original stories that reflects recent trends in modern times.
She was an entrepreneur few years back, but now she is a full-time writer – storyteller – voice over artist – performer – mentor. Her story telling act ‘Zoya Ki Diwali’, songs by Mohammad Muneem, was listed as the ‘Top 10 theatre acts of 2017’ by the Mumbai Theatre Guide. Her story ‘Phir Mohobbat Karni Hai’, performed at an event organised by ‘YourQuote’ in collaboration with Tinder, has gained over 5 Million views, across various digital platforms.
She collaborates with Mohammad Muneem for story telling duet form. Their story telling act on child abuse was recently performed at IIT, Bombay. Their recent show; “Valentine’s Day Special Set” in Indore was featured in the Dainak Bhaskar. She has performed alongside legendary artist Piyush Mishra at an event in Jaipur. She has been featured in Bombay Times, Times of India, Being Indian, The Logical Indian to name a few.
Her Tedx talk on “How Story Telling Saved Me” has been highly appreciated.
Mehak is also a social reform enthusiast and has featured in the campaign “The Bridge Talks” by Caravan Magazine.
Apart from the events, Mehak puts up regular intimate story telling shows in Hindi, Marathi and Urdu across Mumbai Metropolitan City.
She conducts workshops of her story telling school ‘Jhumritaliaya’ aiming at creating story tellers out of common people from their day to day observations and imagination in their mother tongue.
She recently in collaboration with KalArt for telling a beautiful stroy ‘Ammi ka Mobile Phone’. We always hear the term ‘Aaj Kal Ke Bacche’ used in a negative way. This story came a handy of breaking this notion and showing that there exists another side to every coin. It is a story surrounding the basic emotions that run through every family. Click here to watch the video now.
