When she received a great response for Gul, her short story published in the 2019 fantasy anthology Magical Women, independent journalist and award-winning writer Shreya Ila Anasuya decided to adapt it for stage. For this, she's collaborated with singer Vidhya Gopal and choreographer Shinjita Roy. Then, a chance conversation led educator and performance studies scholar Lopamudra Chatterjee to step in as director and design the layout of the performance piece. And that's how Gul was born.

Narrated by Anasuya, Gul is an ode to music and dance and to the forgotten women who nurtured the north Indian classical arts for hundreds of years. It will be brought alive in song by Gopal and dance by Roy, in an intimate production directed by Chatterjee. Roy explains, "In Gul, we speak of magical women who are unapologetically loving, fierce, monstrous and charismatic. We're using a combination of narration with song and dance to pay respect to these histories, without trying to appropriate their identities. We are excited as this performance gave us an opportunity to include our favourite compositions by Begum Akhtar, Ustad Vilayat Khan, Roshan Kumari, Gauharjaan amongst others."