Everybody loves a good story, and Aamir Raza Husain has many. Sitting in a central Mumbai five-star, he settles into story time, telling us of making his nine-month-old daughter cry naturally on stage, for 45 days, years ago. “Had we been in the US, the child services might have arrested us!” he laughs. His second story is about helping a Kargil war veteran win a medal at the Paralympic Games.

Aamir Raza Husain is in Mumbai for the staging of his production, The Lion in Winter. Pic/Pradeep Dhivar