Homi Adajania is many things, and being a filmmaker is just one of them. So it’s no surprise that in 14 years, he has directed only four fi...
Homi Adajania is many things, and being a filmmaker is just one of them. So it’s no surprise that in 14 years, he has directed only four films. In between making his debut, the black comedy Being Cyrus in 2006, to taking up the Bollywood song-dance romance Cocktail in 2012, Adajania didn’t go underground but underwater and elsewhere – he spent time with his first born, went scuba diving and snowboarding and wrote a couple of scripts. One of them became his third film, Finding Fanny (2014).
For Adajania, now a father of two, Angrezi Medium, starring Irrfan, Radhika Madan, Deepak Dobriyal Kareena Kapoor, Tillotama Shome and Dimple Kapadia, was not just another adventure in filmmaking but also a great lesson about life, he told Scroll.in.
Do you define yourself by any one identity?
Not at all, in fact I am very scared of doing that. Filmmaking is not my full time job. I make films because I love telling stories. The rest of my life is my full-time job. Our biggest failing as people is to give ourselves a specific identity, because we start believing we are that, and that’s complete BS.
It’s like what Irrfan told me – this experience I have had, I would not change it. In 40 lifetimes I would...
