Anu Menon: I'm dying to write a Delhi-based story

Filmmaker Anu Menon has set her sights on her hometown, Delhi, for her new film. The director, who was recently in the city, said that she's been wanting to make a film on the capital for long. 'I'm dying to write a Delhi-based story. At the time I was writing a film on Delhi, there were so many Delhi films happening already, so it couldn't materialise then. Now, I'm waiting to make a film set in the Delhi of the '80s,' said Anu.

The director shared that she is inspired by her own growing up years here.'I don't know if I am romanticising my past, but while I grew up here, I never felt or heard of all this sexism that we talk about now. I had a very middle-class upbringing as a student of Kendriya Vidyalaya, living in East of Kailash. I am a Tamilian, but I always say that I am a Punjabi-Madrasi. I started working here in advertising and I used to stay at Jhandewalan,' she said.
She added, 'I even used to drive late at night in my Maruti from work, and I don't remember ever feeling unsafe. Delhi was never an aggressive place. I want to talk about that era. It was a positive era, there was a lot of progressive thinking. In the late '80s, the culture was so different. Everyone used to watch all kinds of films, and now, I feel some pockets of Delhi and perhaps Gurgaon, are more open to certain kinds of cinema,' she said.