Tom Alter shot for Bhargav Saikia's short film, 'The Black Cat', in Uttrakhand this April. It is adapted from Ruskin Bond's short story of the same name and stars Shernaz Patel. Saikia, who had read The Black Cat in boarding school, says he was obsessed with it. After he got permission from Bond to go ahead with the story's movie adaptation, he mailed Alter. "He agreed immediately, without even reading the script. I knew of his friendship with Bond, and had no one else in mind.