REBEL WITH A CAUSE

It took almost two decades and two films for filmmaker Anubhav Sinha to find himself. He debuted with the hit lyrical romance Tum Bin (2001) and lost himself in the labyrinth of commercial cinema, churning out middling fare like Tathastu and Cash. Sanjay Dutt’s Dus and later Shah Rukh Khan’s Ra.One pushed him into the top guild, a world he viewed with awe. But it was the failure of Tum Bin 2 that urged him to reflect on the dissonance between his art and heart.

For Anubhav, well-conversant with Uttar Pradesh, was a lament on the fading and the persecution of minorities. He’s now upped his sociopolitical crusade with . It spotlights that article of the Constitution, which prohibits discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste... Anubhav hopes that the audience leaves the theatres rattled with questions that make them feel culpable about their complicity