Venita Coelho worked in the TV industry as a writer and director. She is also a painter. She has written three books so far, Soap! Writing and Surviving Television in India (nonfiction), Dungeon Tales (fiction) and The Washer of the Dead: A Collection of Ghost Stories (fiction).
Venita had begun her career with UTV on DD. She had written the award-winning soap Trikaal and written the script for Dharma Productions' We are Family.