‘Quirky’ is definitely one way of defining Juhi’s writing, which, over the last seven years, has produced films like Vicky Donor, Piku and October, all directed by long-time collaborator Shoojit Sircar — a Bengali — and peopled with Bengali characters, the most memorable being Amitabh Bachchan’s Bhaskor Banerjee in Piku. Like that of a sperm donor — played by Ayushmann Khurrana, on debut — in Vicky Donor. She does admit that being a new mother at the time influenced the decision to attempt something like Vicky Donor. “Years later, I went back to the script of Vicky Donor and thought, ‘Did I actually write that? “It’s been a long collaboration, since 2003, and I started writing films with his Shoebite, which never released.

Source: The Telegraph February 16, 2019 19:18 UTC