The Big Leap

Raghuvendra Singh meets newbie director Akshay Roy, who has made his debut with Meri Pyaari Bindu

- Raghuvendra Singh

For Akshay Roy, it’s been an organic growth. From being an assistant director to making award winning documentaries, he’s finally got the big break. Falling in love is easy; but moving on excruciating and Akshay’s directorial debut, Meri Pyaari Bindu, searched the way out. The film featured Ayushmann Khurrana and Parineeti Chopra. The Yash Raj Films’ and Maneesh Sharma production was set in Kolkata.

Given that his surname is Roy, one would assume that Akshay is a Bengali. He chuckles and says it isn’t so. “I’m half Parsi and half Punjabi. When I was an assisting director on Mira Nair’s The Namesake, we shot for a month in Kolkata. I fell in love with the city,” he claims. He worked hard to make the set up look authentic and got the costumes right as the film spanned eras beginning from 1983.