RAJI WRITES

People often come to Nandita Das with their own causes. Can you make a film on addiction? On disability? One request that surprised her immensely was for a film about a man who fell off a coconut tree and died. Das has directed films that are thought-provoking, with themes such as identity and displacement (Manto), communal violence (Firaaq), and the dignity of the working class (Zwigato). Nandita Das has acted in more than 40 films, in 10 different languages. Deepa Mehta’s 1