If Border Is Anyone's, It Is Sunny Uncle

Sunny sir keeps me distracted from my morning sickness.

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The 1997 hit Border is getting a sequel more than two decades later. But this time, filmmaker J P Dutta hands over the reins to elder daughter Nidhi Dutta. Nidhi takes over production duties while Anubhav Singh directs the multi-starrer.

Nidhi, who is expecting a baby with Director Binoy Gandhi, chooses the production route to build her career, rather than become an actor like her mum Bindiya Goswami or a director like her father. “When I was young and people would ask, ‘What will you be when you grow up?’, I would say, ‘I want to help Papa’,”

What are your first memories of being on a film set? As a child, did you accompany your father on his sets?

It's not a very proud thing to say -- even though I am proud of it -- but my mom never really cared about us missing school. For her, birthdays were important. If it was Papa's or Dadaji (O P Dutta, who wrote the dialogues for his son's films)'s birthday, mom made sure we went on set, no matter where they was shooting.

My earliest memory of being on a film set was Kshatriya (1993), the film Dad made before Border (1997) But I properly remember going to Bikaner for Border.

We had gone for my birthday and celebrated with everyone in his tent. His tent was very close to where they had made the bunker and the trenches set in the middle of the desert. Mom was pregnant with Siddhi at the time but she also came. I remember Sunny (Deol) uncle in his costume and playing with me.

How old were you then?

Iwas nine.