Screen Saver

Sundance standout Aneesh Chaganty’s uncomfortable debut, an unconventional missing-persons thriller, hits screens this month.

- Neville Bhandara

Aneesh Chaganty first picked up a camera when he was in middle school in San Jose, California, to make a short film he called The Boring Movie (“because it had no plot; it was about a guy who woke up and went about his day”). But it wasn’t till he saw director M Night Shyamalan in India West magazine that he considered turning his passion into a career. “It was just before Sixth Sense (1999) came out, and I saw someone like me, in an American magazine, doing something I wanted to do,” says the 27-year-old, whose directorial debut,