“We’re done with remakes”

Writer, director and producer Neeraj Pandey talks about his crime drama Khakee: The Bihar Chapter, and other upcoming projects

- Karishma Upadhyay

Q. What about IPS officer Amit Lodha’s book Bihar Diaries caught your attention? I met Amit in 2017, much before he had written the book. What intrigued me was that he graduated from IIT Delhi, took the civil services exam and became an IPS officer in the Bihar cadre. Just that journey, for me, was fascinating. And then, the more stories he shared from his days in service, the more I was convinced that he should write a book. To assure him that I am still interested in adapting his story for the screen, I told him to consider that his book’s rights were sold from Day 0.