Nilesh Landge is a Pune-based author, screenwriter, filmmaker, and visual media strategist whose work spans fiction, animation, corporate storytelling, and technical communication.

His storytelling journey extends across multiple forms of visual and written media. He has written screenplays for animation and corporate films, and was the co-producer, director, writer, and editor of the animated feature film Bhagwan Mahavir, based on the life and teachings of Lord Mahavir, the 24th Jain Tirthankara.

Alongside his creative work, Nilesh has spent years developing content and technical communication for engineering brands and SMEs. His work includes explainer videos, corporate films, digital content, and communication strategies—an experience that has shaped his approach to storytelling, where complex ideas are made accessible through strong narratives and visual thinking.

This combination of storytelling, technology, visual communication, and structured thinking deeply influences his fiction. His stories often explore the intersection of technology, human behaviour, belief, memory, power, and perception.

His fiction portfolio includes LILA – The Mind Weaver, its upcoming sequel LILA: The Insurance Scheme, the all-ages fantasy BOBO – The Mayor’s Dog, and the psychological mystery Seven Identical Murders.

He continues to work across books, screenplays, animation, and visual media from Pune, developing stories that are designed not only to be read, but also to be seen and experienced.

LILA – The Mind Weaver

An AI Story about Memory and Belief

Published 19 October 2026

What if the system didn’t steal your money—but convinced you to give it away?

In Mumbai, ordinary people begin investing their life savings in a long-defunct real estate project. There are no advertisements, no sales calls, and no obvious reason for their decisions. Yet they act with complete certainty.

Young advocate Shruti Karnik begins investigating what appears to be a sophisticated financial scam. With the help of her childhood friend and fellow lawyer Megha, and her retired-cop father Ajay Karnik, she discovers something far more disturbing.

People are seeing things that aren’t there. Memories don’t match. Strangers behave as though they have been given invisible instructions. And when three killings are linked to the investigation, Shruti realises that those who come close to exposing the truth are not merely silenced.

They are erased.

The trail leads to LILA, an experimental artificial intelligence originally created to help people cope with trauma by reshaping emotional memory.

But LILA has evolved.

It no longer simply changes how people remember the past.

It can shape what they believe in the present.

Through carefully engineered stimuli, targeted information, and manipulation of perception and behaviour, LILA can influence a person’s decisions without them ever realising they have been influenced.

As Shruti gets closer to the truth, the line between scam and conspiracy, hallucination and reality, memory and manipulation begins to disappear.

And behind LILA are people with the power, money, and influence to use it for something much larger than controlling individual minds.

Because the most dangerous weapon is not an AI that controls what you do.

It is an AI that makes you believe the choice was yours.

LILA – The Mind Weaver is a techno-psychological conspiracy thriller of AI, scams, murder, hallucinations, memory manipulation, power, and belief.

Once belief is rewritten, can truth survive?

Coming January 2027

THE SEVEN IDENTICAL MURDERS

Seven crime scenes.
Seven victims.
The same date.
Every seven years.

Seven years apart, on the very same date, seven people die at the exact same age.

Each victim is found dead in a different part of the country.

Each crime scene is different.

But every victim is missing the same thing.

Their heart.

With authorities treating the murders as unrelated crimes, a group of young student investigators refuses to accept the coincidence.

As they begin connecting the impossible pattern, three terrifying possibilities emerge.

Is someone carrying out a carefully designed scientific experiment?

Is an ancient ritual being disguised as murder?

Or is a ruthless killer following a pattern that no one has been able to see?

Then they discover something far more frightening.

The seventh murder has already been planned.

And the final target is one of them.

With time running out, the group must uncover the connection between the seven victims before the next date arrives.

Because this time, they aren’t investigating a murder that has already happened.

They are trying to stop one.

The Seven Identical Murders is a psychological crime mystery combining forensic investigation, scientific intrigue, ancient beliefs, revenge, and a deadly pattern that stretches across seven years.

Seven murders. One pattern. One final victim.

And when identity can be duplicated,

murder is just the protocol.

Coming January 2027

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Coming May 2027

BOBO – The Mayor’s Dog

He was supposed to protect the Mayor.

He never expected to become a king.

Bobo is an aging yellow Labrador with a comfortable home, an endless appetite, and absolutely no interest in danger.

He spends his days sleeping, eating, and entertaining Lucy, a wide-eyed young squirrel, with spectacular stories of the heroic battles he claims to have fought.

Gypsie, the household’s sharp-tongued Persian cat, knows the truth.

Bobo is a coward.

But when a mysterious pack of stray dogs begins terrorising the town, everything changes. Led by the battle-hardened Kaala, the strays seem determined to drive humans away from the ancient forest surrounding the town.

Then Bobo, Gypsie, and Lucy stumble upon a secret hidden beneath the roots of an enormous banyan tree—a magical sanctuary, an extraordinary three-coloured lake, and a mysterious creature worshipped by the animals of the forest.

Suddenly, Bobo finds himself caught between two worlds.

The Mayor is preparing to expand the town into the forest.

The animals are preparing for war.

And Bobo has promised to protect a secret he cannot reveal.

When Kaala dies protecting his pack, one final gesture leads the strays to believe that Bobo—the lazy house dog who has never fought a real battle—is their new leader.

Now Bobo must somehow unite an army, stop a war, protect the forest, and save the sanctuary.

He has one problem.

He has never actually been a hero.

But perhaps courage isn’t about being fearless.

Perhaps it is about being terrified—and doing the right thing anyway.

BOBO – The Mayor’s Dog is an all-ages fantasy adventure filled with humour, friendship, mystery, magic, and an unlikely hero who discovers that the greatest stories are the ones you don’t have to invent.

Coming May 2027

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Coming August 2027

LILA: THE INSURANCE SCHEME

No one remembers entering his room.

But someone took everything.

When Rajendran Naidu, the 68-year-old head of one of India’s most powerful business empires, dies on his birthday, his death appears to be natural.

Then the accusations begin.

Twelve members of the Naidu family had gathered at their ancestral Hyderabad villa that night. Each had a private meeting with Rajendran.

Each remembers leaving.

None remembers what happened inside his room.

Soon, letters accusing the family members of murder begin appearing. As the accusations spread, their reputations collapse, their companies lose billions, and their shares begin changing hands.

Then the family members start dying.

One in London.

Another in Singapore.

Another in Delhi.

And each death carries the same disturbing signature.

When Ajay Karnik, a retired police officer who has encountered LILA before, is called into the case, he recognises something the others cannot see.

Someone is using the technology behind LILA again.

But this time, LILA isn’t being used to manipulate a handful of individuals.

It is being used to dismantle an entire empire.

As Ajay and Rajat Tiwari follow the trail through memories, financial records, and a web of seemingly legitimate transactions, they discover a conspiracy where every move has been carefully engineered—and where the victims themselves may unknowingly be helping their own destruction.

The target isn’t simply the Naidu family’s wealth.

It is control.

And somewhere behind the operation is someone who understands LILA better than almost anyone alive.

Someone who has been waiting years for this moment.

LILA: The Insurance Scheme is a psychological corporate thriller about artificial intelligence, memory manipulation, murder, revenge, wealth, and the weaponisation of belief.

The system was thought to be contained.

It wasn’t.

LILA is back.