For filmmaker Shonali Bose, 60 is the perfect time to return to her old self. To her indie roots, as she puts it. Even as she, along with co-director Nilesh Maniyar, is taking their documentary, A Fly on the Wall, to film festivals, Bose is simultaneously setting the stage for her indie film. “I’m turning 60 this year. I felt I needed to go back to my indie roots, and by that, I don’t only mean budget but where I won’t have any creative interference,” she begins. Though tight-lipped about the film, Bose shares an integral detail. “It’s based in the North-east,” she says. 

In her mind, the National Award-winning director—who previously helmed The Sky Is Pink (2019) and a segment in Modern Love: Mumbai (2022)—has a blueprint of how she wants the next phase of her career to shape up. “I will work for free on the indie film. Also, there is a studio film that I’m hopeful will happen. Every year I want to make one indie film and a commercial film.”