Kapadia replied: Its not easy to sustain a career in independent movies [in India].
Then we got the funding because we had French co-production.
Kore-eda also quizzed Kapadia on how she decided to become a filmmaker and her time studying at FTII.
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Watching all those films helped me to think, Kapadia said.
It was like a co-dependent, collaborative experience, and it was the same also with the cast.
Its already much more than I expected.
Anything that comes my way is more than I expected.
Spirit Media has already given the film an Oscars-qualifying run in the state of Kerala.
Kapadia said the film has been well received so far by Indian audiences, but these were cinephile audiences.
How these questions land is always complicated, she continued.
But that doesnt mean we should stop asking them and expressing feelings about the society we live in.
After all, thats our job and I hope people respond in the way its intended.
