Although producer and writer Sidharth Jain had been working in the film industry for almost a decade, with his production company iRock and a stint as creative head at Hotstar, it was in New York in the summer of 2017 that he realised the power of the story. He had been lucky to convince filmmaker and stage director Bill Hopkins to spend the summer teaching him acting, writing and directing.

"He liked where and I was coming from, and somehow agreed to give me one-on-one classes. So, we would spend the mornings talking about the -story- and its anatomy, and in the evening, I would assist him at his classes at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute," he tells us.