Making Dug Dug wasn’t the hardest part for indie filmmaker Ritwik Pareek. Getting it released was. The satire premièred at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). What followed was an almost five-year wait, until filmmakers Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane, Nikkhil Advani, and Vasan Bala came on board as executive producers and paved the road to its release.

(L-R) Vikramaditya Motwane, Nikkhil Advani, and Vasan Bala joined Kashyap as the film’s executive producers