Every morning I wake up and see the Spanish guitar I bought from Hobbner’s years ago standing in the corner of my bedroom. It’s become like a habit and I lie to myself every morning and tell myself that tomorrow I am going to pick it up . …
Having lived my entire childhood in Bhutan [...]

I was shocked to read about the blaze at Kolkata’s Stephen Court… We were shooting at Flury’s on March 4… How suddenly death comes and yet, we continue living every day of our lives with so much pettiness and malice…

Onir believes that he thrives creatively purely because he is an independent director. However, this also brings along occupational hazards, as he recently discovered.

T2 caught Up With Nandita Das in town days before Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar

After winning multiple Filmfare awards for her directorial debut, it was a grand homecoming of sorts of Nandita Das in Kolkata which is not really her hometown. Nandita is an Oriya by parentage. But because of the number of films she has done in Bengali she’s often mistaken for a Bengali.

Sometimes even one director can be quite a handful on the sets of a movie. Imagine three of them in one small room trying to shoot a scene.

Unlike the directors mentioned alongside, Anurag Basu has had no previous experience in acting.
Onir explains why he asked Basu to act in his film, “I needed a certain look, a gravity and an authority in the personality.

He turned down Anurag Kashyap’s offer to act in The Girl in Yellow Boots. Having made his acting debut in Kolkata for Onir’s I am Afia

That Kolkata-born Subodh Maskara had never watched a film shoot before showed up in his curiosity as he took a peek at wife Nandita Das shooting for Onir’s I Am Afia with Sanjay Suri and Purab Kohli in Kolkata

He turned down Anurag Kashyap’s offer to act in The Girl in Yellow Boots. Having made his acting debut in Kolkata for Onir’s I Am Afia, director Anurag Basu is planning to shoot his next with Ranbir Kapoor in north Bengal