Nayanika Balaji
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Documentary
Edited, Directed and Conceptualised the video documentary for a restaurant, Mirchi and Mime. It is the first restaurant in India in which the entire service team comprising hearing and speech-impaired individuals. The concept is altruistically changing the culinary landscape in the country. The food menu for ordering is designed in such a way that customer is not required to know the sign language. With an illustrated menu in the hand, diners can simply point and indicate the number of portions. An easy-to-follow gesture glossary is also appended to the menu for diners to indicate other eating accoutrement like cutlery, crockery, salt, pepper, spices etc.
Within a year, owners of this restaurant opened a second restaurant, "Madeira and Mime" nearby with a similar concept. In addition, the owners are trying to scale this concept further with a total of 21 mime concept restaurants with the next one also in Mumbai, the fourth in Bengaluru and one each in Dubai, Singapore and London, along with other Indian cities.

