Newcomer Zoya Hussain harboured the dream of directing Anurag Kashyap in a film, but the project took a backseat as the duo came together for her acting debut, Mukkabaaz. Hussain says she had known the filmmaker for a while and was looking for an opportunity to collaborate with him. "I had done theatre, but not modelling. I had written a short play, based on Kamala Das' short story, that I wanted to adapt into a film. I wanted him [Kashyap] to act in it and met him through a friend. I was part of a film called Three And Half Takes. He saw it and liked it."

Anurag Kashyap