If you wanted to live an easy life, you wouldn't make films!" jokes Academy Award winning British filmmaker Asif Kapadia, who has a savant like gift of turning what would otherwise be an over told story into a visual love letter celebrating the humble side of a phenomenal life lived. Known for his gripping documentaries on some of the strongest most controversially complex lives in pop culture, such as Senna (on Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna) and Amy (on singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse), he's now releasing Diego Maradona, which delves into the rise and fall of the retired Argentinean footballer.

'He's big and tough'

"I've watched and played football my whole life, and read a book on Maradona when I was a filmmaking student. His story always intrigued me, and as chance would have it, a producer contacted me in 2015 about reels and reels of footage we could get our hands on to make a film about him," says Kapadia, adding, "But it was a tough three-year journey because I lived in London, he lives in Dubai, the story takes place in Italy and most of the people I needed to interview live in Buenos Aires… so there was a lot of cross-continental travelling!"