Madhusree is a filmmaker, art producer and curator based in Mumbai. Her films; broadly engaging with identity, urbanity and moving people are extensively screened all over the world and are taught as texts in university departments and research centres. Madhusree has received three National Awards, Filmfare Award and several international awards for her films. She has relinquished her national awards in 2015 in protest against state-sponsored cultural intolerance.

Madhusree's curatorial works include Expression, the first women's arts festival in the country in 1990. Majlis, a Centre for Multi-disciplinary Arts Initiative in Mumbai, had emerged out of this festival. Some of her other curatorial works are Culture@World Social Forum in 2004 in Mumbai, 2005 in Porte Alegre, Brazil, and 2007 in Nairobi; Import Export: Cultural Transfer between India and German Speaking Europe - a European Union project in 2005 and Project Cinema City: Research Art and Documentary Practices - a disciplinary interface between cinema, visual arts, architecture and urban planning, 2008-2014. The project engages around 100 artists of different registers.

Madhusree's publications include The Nation, the State and Indian Identity, (co-editor) 1996; Sites and Practices: an Exercise in Cultural Pedagogy, (co-editor) 2006; dates.sites: Bombay/Mumbai, 2012, a narrativised timeline of the cinema city Bombay / Mumbai; and Project Cinema City, 2013, an anthology on the city and its cinema (co-edited).

She will be the artistic director of Academy of the Arts of the World in Cologne, Germany from March 2018.