Aakash Bhatia believes the beauty of his first feature film, Looop Lapeta, is that it cannot be boxed in a genre. While its source material — the German cult film, Run Lola Run (1998) — is a thriller at its core, Bhatia says he has played with form and style to make the Taapsee Pannu-led adaptation “a genre-jumping film.” “We have constantly used the term because the film slides into humour, then slides out of it to tap into emotions, and so on. So, we have tried to [explore different tracks] through its treatment. I would call it a genre-jumping film that allows every emotion to exist,” says the director.

Aakash Bhatia