Manjari Makijany: I hope the film breaks the perception because India has such fantastic skater girls

Manjari Makijany

Through the arc of the protagonist, the film challenges gender norms while depicting how the sport is giving agency to young girls. “Skating is not restricted to a gender. Neither are other sports, but we raise our girls to believe that things are demarcated based on gender. I hope the film breaks the perception because India has such fantastic skater girls,” asserts Makijany, who served as assistant director to Vishal Bhardwaj on 7 Khoon Maaf (2011) and worked with Hollywood filmmaker Christopher Nolan on Dunkirk (2017). “From Vishalji, I learnt the language of cinema. As homework, I would do my shot breakdown and match it to his shots.”