Do screenwriters make for better directors? Suman Kumar would be the right person to answer that. The writer made his directorial debut with Keerthy Suresh’s recent release, Raghu Thatha. “If you ask me, screenwriting is harder. Someone has to build it on paper for [the rest] to happen. A director’s job is to keep the vision uniform; it is a lot of people-managing. The writer may write a scene with pasta, and at your location, there is only idli sambar,” he laughs.

Suman Kumar