I started making this film when I began living in a queer household,” says Anureet Watta, Delhi-based filmmaker and director of Don’t Interrupt While We Dance (2026), a film that explores queer rage and joy. It began taking shape in 2024 and has so far been screened in six cities, with the next screening at a Lower Parel venue this evening.

The film is set in an apartment shared by queer friends who are celebrating a young transwoman Noori’s 18th birthday, before being interrupted by the police. Explaining the use of this space, Watta says, “Once you start living together, you realise you don’t really talk about coming out every day. You talk about milk; who’s going to cut the onions; wash the utensils and so on. It becomes a communal space, a family of various people who have odd relationships with their birth families.”