This is a Bangalore film diary okay Bengaluru where I was on assignment recently. I couldn’t wait for a taste of the city, and asked the driver of the airport pick-up car to pause at the nearest Iyengar bakery, and picked up an “alu bun” (with potato filling) and “khara bun” (with potato filling). I couldn’t tell the difference, but I didn’t care, as it is not often in Bombay that I get to eat buns hot off their oven tray—unless I schlep it to Yazdani Bakery in Fort.

A still from the film Lucia