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THE RELUCTANT ARTIST

Filmmaker Homi Adajania jokingly calls Dimple Kapadia “, a slang term for clever in Marathi. And he loves her for it. Adajania recalled how the actress called him over to discuss her character in his film, , only to realise that he was, in fact, there to shoot her audition for an upcoming Christopher Nolan film. “Four hours I stood in her house with my phone trying different versions,” says Adajania in an interview) also chipped in. Kapadia, though, remembers it differently. “One told me he was coming; the other just decided to drop by on the same day. I thought ‘both of you get to work now’.” Nolan’s releases on December 4 in theatres.

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