“When I wrote Labour of Love, certain portions had dialogues, but by the time we reached there, the film had already developed a strong voice. Dialogues became redundant,” says Aditya Vikram Sengupta over the phone from Kolkata. The 84-minute Bengali film ended up being the toast of international festivals and ran to encouraging response in Mumbai last week.

It took Aditya Vikram Sengupta two years and most of his finances to make his debut full-length feature that ditches dialogues