With films such as "Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!", "Khosla Ka Ghosla", "Love Sex Aur Dhokha" and "Shanghai", which narrate the exceptional stories of average people, filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee has created a niche for himself in Bollywood. He says the simple common man was always around in our cinema, and the "macho" hero is basically a product of patriarchy.

How does he see the average man being the hero of our films now than the quintessential macho men? "I think the average man has always been there. The macho hero is basically a product of patriarchy and over the last five or six years we are seeing a very significant assault on patriarchy. Probably, that's why we are sort of seeing the kind of new heroes that we are seeing, and I am so glad that once the audience will see the climax of 'Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar', they will have a new kind of hero," Banerjee told IANS.