Writer, comedian Sumukhi Suresh launches content company ‘Motormouth'

Writer, showrunner, stand-up comedian and actor Sumukhi Suresh has launched Motormouth, a company that will leverage her experience to create, curate and discover entertaining content for women across all platforms.

Motormouth will create both long-form and short-form content including movies. The writers at Motormouth aim to change culture and gender lens using storytelling, but not skimp on jokes that will make you laugh at a funeral. 

The range of characters male actors play or portray is enviously fabulous and Motormouth wishes to do that for female actors and eventually, with the right team, for other genders as well.

“The market assumes that only men pay to watch for content, therefore making content for them is the wisest content move. But that's only because they have been backed, championed and invested in for decades. I don’t want a slice of that pie, I want my own pie. I have become who I am only because women across different age groups watch me and love me (sometimes hate too). I want to invest in that. So that 30 years later investing in content for women is the wisest content move,” Sumukhi said. 

She added, "I had a dream to play the lead and not the best friend. I was told I don't look like a lead and asked whether I would be able to carry a movie or a show on my own. The only way to prove that notion wrong was to create my own show with a fundamentally flawed protagonist who you grudgingly root for. My management, Only Much Louder (OML) backed my dream, sold it to Amazon Prime Video and now there are two seasons of Pushpavalli. Hopefully, I make more of these for myself and other doe-eyed Sumukhis.” 

Motormouth has already bagged two feature films for Indian producers. The content house’s first creation, an untitled young adult-comedy-thriller by Sumaira Shaikh and Suresh will soon be on the slate of an OTT Platform.

Suresh will also play one of the primary characters in the show.

Apart from writing fiction content, Suresh is also building a team of writers to cater to branded content.

Aspiring writers can apply to be part of Motormouth by writing to cliffhanger@sumukhisuresh.com.

Sumaira Shaikh said, “Sumukhi loves working with women and she has been blamed by the male writers that they are the token men in her writers’ rooms and I agree, boys are losers.”

Ajay Nair, Managing Director, OML, which will present Motormouth, added, “Sumukhi is the ultimate multi-hyphenate. She has proven that she can write and act and run a multi-crore budget production while making people laugh. With Motormouth, she is all set to become one of India’s powerhouse creators and storytellers and we are thrilled to participate in the journey.”