At Usha Productions, we fuse drama with entertainment, crafting films that are emotionally raw, socially conscious, and fiercely independent in spirit.
Influenced by trailblazing filmmakers like Ken Loach and Mike Leigh, we strive to create lean, bold, low-budget films that punch above their weight. Our stories combine authenticity with cinematic energy, blending realism and heart to connect with audiences worldwide.
We believe in storytelling with purpose, giving voice to underrepresented communities and exploring themes that matter: identity, family, migration, and the quiet resilience of ordinary people.
Our goal is simple yet ambitious: to make films that move, provoke, and endure, merging truth, empathy, and the raw electricity of human experience.
Current Projects
1. Half Truths
After their abusive patriarch dies, Ruchika leads her British South Asian family on a fraught road trip to scatter his ashes in the Scottish Highlands, colliding with her estranged brother, a contested will and violent debt collectors. Grief, inheritance and buried trauma erupt as love, law and courage hold the line.
2. The Journey
Priya, a high-achieving therapist, risks everything to leave a charismatic but coercively controlling husband. As work, culture and family close ranks, she wrestles hope from harm, testing boundaries, friendship and self-belief. A raw, performance-driven drama of modern marriage, immigration and personal agency, intimate stakes with urgent, global relevance.
3. Lost Child
From Kalimpong’s rugged hills to London’s cool galleries, Anamika fights to redefine herself as an artist. Handheld urgency meets lyrical scope in a cross-cultural coming-of-age where class, gender and migration collide. A propulsive, contemporary British feature designed for global audiences, authentic, kinetic, and deeply resonant.
4. Second World Country
Set in Birmingham, Second World Country follows 17-year-old Hamzah, desperate to keep his seven-year-old sister safe as social services intervene, their mother unravels and gangs circle. Fighting poverty, abuse and coercion, one reckless act to reunite his family entangles him in crime. A performance-led thriller about care, culpability and hope.