Haven’t many of us wondered when Kiran Rao will return to direction as we watched the poignant Dhobi Ghat (2010), several times over? But you can’t hurry filmmakers true to their art; they will rekindle their romance with the camera only when they have a story to tell. And Rao seems to have found hers. Almost 12 years since her directorial debut opened to glowing reviews, the producer-director has quietly kicked off the shoot of her second project. mid-day has learnt that the drama-comedy, backed by Aamir Khan Productions, went on floors in a town near Pune on January 8.

(From left) Pratibha Ranta and Sparsh Shrivastav front the film