Nitesh Tiwari: Civilised arguments make us better creators

Updated On: 16 July, 2023 07:14 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu

With Bawaal making references to World War 2 and Hitler, director Nitesh on navigating social media debates and scrutiny around the film

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Varun Dhawan and Janhvi Kapoor in Bawaal

Our history makes us who we are. It was probably this one line around which director-writer Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari wrote Bawaal, not knowing that the movie would land in filmmaker-husband Nitesh Tiwari’s kitty. “The story came from Ashwiny based on her life experiences with my dad. She wanted to take my father to the locations of World War 2. She was developing it for herself, but got busy with other projects. When I had a window, I asked her if she would be kind enough to part with it. My writers and I developed it further over the next two years,” begins Tiwari.

Nitesh Tiwari