Having a presenter on board wasn’t even on Shashwat Dwivedi’s mind when he began making Bobby Beauty Parlour. Call it destiny or a happy accident, but a casual meeting with his mentor Anurag Kashyap led the filmmaker to join the short film as a presenter. “When I ran into Anurag sir, I casually mentioned the film. He found it cool and came on board,” the first-time director told mid-day.

A still fom the film