Ajay Bahl grew up in the city of Delhi and was a state level cricketer in his teen years, disillusioned by the corruption in sport he meandered into many different vocations before chancing upon a book on filmmaking at a friend’s house. He is a high school drop-out and a self-taught cinematographer, he began his career in the advertising industry in 2005. He started his film production company Tonga Talkies in 2010 and after reading Mohan Sikka’s short story The Railway Aunty, Ajay acquired rights to make it into a feature which is now titled B.A Pass. It is his first narrative feature.