Anvitaa

Express News Service Art is aspiration. It’s also antidote. Take the films of Anvitaa Dutt, for example. The director of Bulbbul and Qala—two exquisitely imagined, beguilingly old-world recent Hindi films—started her…

Tripti Dimri in a still from ‘Qala’ | Photo Credit: Netflix In an industry where storytellers usually avoid negotiating the mindscapes of their protagonists, writer-director Anvita Dutta is an exception. After the spooky Bulbbul, she…

Anvitaa Dutt has donned several hats during her 17-year career in Bollywood. She has written dialogues, lyrics, and screenplays for films like Queen and Philauri, but her more recent projects are where she has found her calling. “I realised…