A film reveals its maker\'s worldview\, says Gully Boy director Zoya Akhtar

A film reveals its maker's worldview, says Gully Boy director Zoya Akhtar

Every movie has changed her, but Gully Boy more so than any other, Akhtar tells Urvi Malvania & Arundhuti Dasgupta

Urvi Malvania & Arundhuti Dasgupta 

It’s cold no? Can we reduce the AC please?” Zoya Akhtar is on the dot for our rather late lunch appointment at San:Qui, a restaurant at Four Seasons Mumbai that describes itself as a “dramatic dining room” and promises a “pan-Asian culinary tour”. Whatever that may be, when it comes to the freeze factor, this restaurant is no different from the rest in the city that dial it up to Arctic levels.

The plusher they are, the worse it gets (yes, it is a pet peeve). But unlike our rants that are usually met with a studied glance into space, Akhtar’s ...

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First Published: Fri, March 01 2019. 21:17 IST