Shabana Azmi may be miles away from home during Diwali, but she has enough reasons to celebrate. While her romantic comedy What’s Love Got To Do With It was adjudged the Best Comedy at the Rome International Film Festival, the senior actor kicked off the shoot of the second season of Halo in Budapest. Otto Bathurst, who had helmed the first edition of the sci-fi series, has handed over the baton to Debs Paterson. “It’s interesting to have a woman helm this genre, which is considered men’s domain,” says Azmi. 

The actor with director Debs Paterson