A lot has happened in Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s life between her last directorial venture, Faadu (2022), and now. The filmmaker faced halts on developing projects, and personal loss with her mother passing on. So, when 2025 began, she wanted to do what she knows best — tell stories. The director has been busy scripting the biopic of Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy, and his wife Sudha Murty, an educator and author. 

The project was announced in 2021, but Tiwari says it will take some time before she takes it on floors. “I’m still writing. I do hope it happens, because we have been writing, and it is a complicated story to tell. I’m in touch with the family; I discuss the script with their son [Rohan Murty]. But it will take its own sweet time,” she shares. 

Not too long ago, the director was also set to bring Devika Rani, Indian cinema’s first female star, and her filmmaker-husband Himanshu Rai’s love story to screen. Probe her on the movie, and she says, “That is on hold right now. The studio has changed. That is the past.”