Milan Luthria

His directorial venture, The Dirty Picture (2011), loosely based on the life of South actor Silk Smitha, received acclaim, but Milan Luthria believes that the enthusiasm showcased by viewers for the biopic genre will soon fizzle out. The filmmaker, who was part of a panel discussion along with Hansal Mehta, Nandita Das and Piyush Gupta, says a director's or writer's "laziness" prompts him/her to work on a biopic instead of crafting original stories.