CHALLENGING THE Status Quo

FOUR YEARS AFTER HER LAST DIRECTORIAL VENTURE, ASHWINY IYER TIWARI RETURNS WITH SYSTEM, AN INTENSE COURTROOM DRAMA ON AMAZON PRIME

- Suhani Singh

SOMETIMES, ALL IT TAKES IS A LOSS FOR A PROFESSIONAL RESET. In filmmaker Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s case, her mother’s passing in 2024 led her to reevaluate her role as a storyteller. There was a pause, lots of travel and doing your thing, which was “everything except making movies”. “I was fed up at the way people looked at films and things worked in the industry,” she says. The box office failure of Panga (2020) and the tepid response to her maiden web series, Faadu (2022), caused introspection. “I was shattered. I felt we need to celebrate stories, we cannot be celebrating individuals.” But rise from the ashes she did.

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