Vipul Amrutlal Shah bids adieu to 2022 with a smile. The filmmaker’s “most amazing year”, marked two decades since the release of his directorial debut, Aankhen, and also had him reinvent his style of cinema. He admits that while he enjoyed shifting his attention to production, he would have also taken pleasure in directing more films. Discussion around the failure of his directorial ventures, like his last one, Namaste England, doesn’t perturb him. “I came back with the web series Human, after all,” he says of the show that earned acclaim, and featured his actor-wife, Shefali Shah. “Now, I plan to direct at least one film or web project every year.”

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