Manjula Padmanabhan is an Indian journalist, dramatist, comic strip artist and children book author. She has written two plays, Lights Out (1983) and Harvest (1997). Harvest was adapted into a movie by Govind Nihalani named Deham in 2001. In 2017 Govind Nihalani went on to adapt Lights Out into a Marathi movie by the name, Ti Ani Itar.