Filmmaker Kiran Rao, whose directorial ‘Laapataa Ladies’ bagged 13 Filmfare Awards, is over the moon. Celebrating the success of her film, Kiran spoke with IANS in the Bandra West area of Mumbai on Tuesday.

The film presents an offbeat narrative. It came at a time when people in metro cities or big cities generally preferred action or drama or over the top films, tentpole films. But Kiran had the conviction that this is the story she wanted and told it the way she wanted without making any compromises or making any accommodations from the commercial point of view.