Arise Times
Not all turning points make noise. Some unfold quietly, over time — through reflection, restlessness, and the courage to begin again. For Meghna Prem, the decision to leave behind a thriving media career wasn’t sparked by crisis. It was the slow, certain awakening of a deeper truth: her success was no longer synonymous with her soul’s fulfillment.
Today, she is the founder of the Brand Meghna — a handcrafted design and sacred décor atelier rooted in beauty, balance, and belonging. But before she held a paintbrush or clay tool in hand, Meghna held the reins of India’s entertainment narratives, shaping stories that aired on prime-time slots and silver screens across the country.
A Career That Was Never Just a Job
Meghna’s professional past reads like a highlight reel of modern Indian storytelling. From her early leadership at renowned agencies like Rediffusion and Mudra to her later stints with production giants such as Balaji Telefilms and Pen Studios, her career trajectory was steep, strategic, and studded with impact.
She played a key role in launching some of Indian television’s most beloved fiction serials, contributing to the success of entertainment networks including Zee, Star, Viacom, and Sahara. Her storytelling instincts also found resonance in cinema — with creative contributions to films like Lage Raho Munna Bhai, Tere Naam, and My Wife’s Murder — working alongside celebrated directors and producers.
Her last designation, Vice President of Branded Content at Next Narrative, saw her leading content innovation in the digital space. Under her leadership, the YouTube series Hero Xoom Patrol bagged a Silver award at the Afaqs Marketers Excellence Awards 2025 — an acknowledgment of her ability to stay ahead in a rapidly changing media landscape.
Leaving What Was Working — To Find What Was Calling
But even as the accolades piled up and the career graph ascended, Meghna found herself questioning the pace, the purpose, and the pulse of the life she was leading.
“There was no dramatic breaking point,” she says. “It was quieter than that. A growing sense that my creativity needed different soil. That the way I created needed to shift — from strategy to stillness, from speed to presence.”
So she stepped away — from meetings, networks, scripts, and sets — into a space where silence wasn’t empty, but fertile.
Reclaiming Creation as a Sacred Act
That inward shift manifested as Brand Meghna — a bespoke art and space styling studio that doesn’t just make things beautiful but makes them meaningful.
Each piece under her label is handmade — be it hand-painted furniture, glass calligraphy, spiritual altars, or mixed-material décor. But what distinguishes her work isn’t just its aesthetic — it’s the energy it holds. Every commission begins with intention, every design emerges from intuition, and every object carries a sense of presence.
“I don’t create for trends,” Meghna emphasizes. “I create for resonance. I ask: how can this piece hold space for someone’s story, sorrow, joy, or stillness?”
She works with natural and reclaimed materials — wood, wire, clay, glass, fabric — often integrating Vastu principles and elements of sacred geometry into her spatial compositions. From homes to healing studios, boutique hotels to meditation rooms, her work brings a palpable stillness to the spaces it inhabits.
Meghna is not new to reinvention — but she approaches it differently. Where most would brand it as a pivot, she sees it as continuity.
“My years in media weren’t discarded,” she explains. “They became the foundation. Storytelling, sensitivity, timing — all those tools still live in my work, just through a different language now.”
Her past also informs her discipline. The rigour of showrunning, the pressure of television deadlines, and the nuance of audience empathy now translate into her custom art process — from conceptualizing with clients to honoring timelines without sacrificing soul.
Recognition, Mentorship, and Ongoing Impact
While she may have stepped out of the corporate circuit, Meghna’s influence continues to ripple across India’s creative landscape. She remains actively involved in media education, having developed academic content for institutions such as Whistling Woods International and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).
Her work as a mentor and educator is particularly focused on nurturing emotional intelligence in future creators — reminding them that good content isn’t about reach alone, but about the feeling it leaves behind. Explore Meghna Prem’s evolving world of soulful art and bespoke design at @meghnaprem on Instagram.
In 2025, she was recognised as one of the Top 30 Women Achievers by Ear to Hear, a platform honouring voices that inspire change through authenticity. She also served as a jury member for the prestigious Indian Telly Awards in 2015, affirming her longstanding leadership in the entertainment space.
A Personal Revolution, Publicly Lived
Perhaps what resonates most about Meghna Prem’s journey is its subtlety. There’s no branding blitz, no re-launch spectacle. Just a woman choosing to live, create, and offer from a place of inner coherence.
Her work is finding a community — slowly but steadily — among those seeking soulful living in a hyper-commercial world. Her clients include boutique homeowners, conscious architects, healers, and creative professionals who don’t want their spaces to simply look good, but feel right.
And while she doesn’t chase virality, her creations — once installed — often spark something lasting. A quiet altar in a corner. A hand-lettered verse on driftwood. A painted chest that becomes the emotional centrepiece of a room.
In an era where speed is currency, Meghna Prem is gently but firmly reintroducing slowness as sacred. Her upcoming projects include thematic collections exploring silence, healing, and ancestral memory, as well as collaborations with wellness brands and craft-based retail studios.
But for Meghna, it’s not about scale. “The real goal,” she shares, “is to honour the human. The unseen. The felt.”
With Brand Meghna, she is doing exactly that — reminding us that art is not always spectacle. Sometimes, it’s sanctuary.
