Nikhil
Nikhil Wadhwa
Troublemaker. Protector. Best friend.
Loud in a room, loyal in the ways he does not advertise. Final-year B.Tech, 2010. He can annoy her to the core, and would still fight the world for her.
First original · Lucknow, circa 2010
Butterfly Waali Baat
A coming-of-age, best-friends-to-lovers story about two neighbours who did not choose each other — and then could not choose anyone else.
Coming of age · Best friends to lovers
Neighbours first. Friends later. Love, not yet.
It started with their mothers. A cup of sugar. Salt. Milk. Two houses in the same society, two women becoming friends over the smallest borrowings. Their children did not follow. Nikhil and Anki clashed over everything that did not matter — until the day it did. Years later they are still next to each other: final-year engineering, Lucknow heat, almost always together. The love is already there. Neither of them has said it.
01
The mothers
They were neighbours. Friendship began with borrowed sugar, salt, milk — the small traffic of two homes that learned to leave the door open.
02
The children
Nikhil and Anki did not dig each other. Cricket bats, remote controls, homework, pride. Constant clashes over small, silly things.
03
The shift
A book falls. A hand helps. Eyes meet. Then she is gone for ten days, and the house next door is too quiet. When she comes back, they are no longer only the neighbour's kids.
04
Always together
Engineering college did not make them friends. It just gave them more hours. Final year, 2010. Best friends. And something neither of them has named.
Original music teaser
Dil Thoda Sa Dheere Chala
Watch on YouTube
First in-house original
The teaser is live.
A short song film for Dil Thoda Sa Dheere Chala — the first public piece of Butterfly Waali Baat. Two neighbours. One friendship that took the long way round.
Watch the teaserFinal year, 2010
Nikhil and Anki
Anki
Ankita Tiwari
The calm in his chaos.
Kind, grounded, sharp. Lucknow. Final-year B.Tech, 2010. Simple kurtas, a white dupatta, a ponytail that means business. She grew up next door. She is the person who knows the real him — and still chooses to stay.
From the world
Two people. One lane.
The studio
Astron Arts
Astron Arts is an independent storytelling studio. We make original intellectual property — stories first, then the form they need: film, series, animation, publishing, music.
Butterfly Waali Baat is the first in-house original — created by P Thomas. Story, Screenplay, Direction, Creative Development.
Creating stories that become timeless.
Contact
Let's begin with a conversation.
Business, partnerships, press — or if the work moved you.
hello@astronarts.inWe do not accept unsolicited scripts, treatments, or manuscripts. All intellectual property is developed internally.