Priyadarshan: I give this award to my two gurus

David Lean and Ramesh Sippy’s film styles have influenced me. They had the same way of making films. ”

“Every father is proud to have his son. I’m glad Siddharth got it in his first film. I asked Siddharth, a VFX graduate in the US, to quit his lucrative job.

I told him he could come back after working on the film. But the medal was very encouraging to him. ”
Making costumes was a challenge, as she wanted to create an outfit that would be similar to the sensitivity of the people of India as a whole.

“We have followed the drawings of artist Raja Ravi Varma for women, to get into clothes. The history around it was incomprehensible, so I had to use my imagination to write this play. ”