A fly on the wall-- that`s how one feels in a room with Shonali Bose and Nilesh Maniyar, two filmmakers who often partner up to tell stories and two friends who have each other`s back. A Fly on the Wall is also the title of their latest collaboration. The upcoming documentary, directed by them and also featuring Bose, spans across days leading up to the death of their friend, Chika Kapadia.  

Following a terminal cancer diagnosis, Kapadia opted tor a physician-assisted suicide in Switzerland, in 2022, and he wanted Bose to film it. She said yes, but it only became a film once Maniyar put his vision to it. "He had this thought that he shared, `Friendship, shoot with an i-Phone so it’s intimate and seven days to a man’s death. What is he doing every day?` I couldn`t think of how it could be a film. But Nilesh said that to me, and I really loved it. Often that happens, Nilesh will give me a one liner for a script or a thought for how we could write our screenplay and I get excited by that," she says.