Eight-time National Award-winning filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj is a treasure trove of experiences and anecdotes. Mid-day recently got to be an audience to some of those accounts when he sat down for a chat as part of our Sit With Hitlist conversation series.

His first film was going to be something called Barf, which was supposed to be a cross-border tale. Bhardwaj insists such a film cannot be made in current times. “Abhi toh waise hi anti-national bolte hain, phir bolenge Pakistan jao,” he says.