Seth's mother was the Indian Chief Justice Leila Seth, and her brothers are the novelist Vikram Seth and the Buddhist teacher Shantum Seth.[9][10]
Seth graduated with a master’s degree from the Mass Communications Research Centre at the Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi. Following graduation she first worked as an assistant director for the film In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones written by Arundhati Roy. She also worked as the designer for the film. In 1992, she met the director Deepa Mehta on the set of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles which led her to design the sets for Mehta's films Fire in 1996 and Earth in 1998.[11]
Selected filmography
Seth has been involved in art direction or production design for:[12]