

Updated On: 10 December, 2022 07:26 AM IST | Mumbai | Letty Mariam Abraham
Shweta on interacting with Kamathipura’s sex workers for her role in India Lockdown

Shweta Basu Prasad in the film
If Shweta Basu Prasad had her way, she would have teamed up with Madhur Bhandarkar in 2005. But destiny had other plans. Almost 17 years on, the actor-director duo have collaborated on India Lockdown. “He had approached me for Traffic Signal after watching Iqbal [2005]. At the time, studies were [my priority], and my parents had put a hard stop to acting. After years, when he approached me for India Lockdown, I fell in love with the subject,” says the actor.

Madhur Bhandarkar