Rarely does an opportunity present itself when a project speaks to the human in you. So, when Tanishaa Mukerji was offered the short film Agni Daah—a story of a girl abandoned in a dumpster at birth and then raised in a crematorium—the decision was a no-brainer. “It is a true story of a girl who works in a cemetery. Our director [Yogendra Chaubal] saw her and felt he needed to tell her story,” says Mukerji, who wanted to delve into the long-lasting effect of childhood trauma that girls experience once they grow up.

Tanishaa Mukerji