Her family is originally from New Delhi, however, she has never lived there. She spent her early years in Calcutta, Dubai, Sri Lanka, Muscat, Oman where she attended the Sultan's School, The Woodstock School in Mussoorie, and Qatar. She moved to Mumbai for College and has lived there ever since.[citation needed]
She was the writer-director of the contemporary urban thriller Kal: Yesterday and Tomorrow (2005), which also won her the Osian's Cinefan Film Festival Critics Award.[1] She raised the financing for this film by making a business plan and bringing together a consortium of 14 investors'.
Her film Guilty (2020) on Netflix[2] starring Kiara Advani has met with a lot of success and acclaim. It is set in an elite Delhi College and centers around an allegation of rape during the #MeToo Movement in India.
She has also was the showrunner and the lead director for the 2020 8-part comedy series 'Hundred' on the platform Disney+ Hotstar[2] which she and her partners created, wrote and produced. The show is a light and irreverent take on two very different women who struggle to do what they want to do in the city of Mumbai. One of them is played by Lara Dutta as a police woman who feels she can't break the glass ceiling. The other is a young girl, played by Rinku Rajguru who discovers she has only a hundred days to live. Together, they try and make their lives count.
Personal life
Narain is the single mother of her daughter Vira who she adopted in 2019.[3]
