Kathmandu, July 19 -- Jean Renoir once said that a filmmaker makes only one film in their life; they then break it into pieces and make it again. Only the former is true in Anand Gandhi's case. With a few short films and soap operas under his belt, the film's writer and director Gandhi's cinematic prime peaked with his first and only feature, 'Ship of Theseus'. The film turns 13 today.

Released in 2013, the film explores life, art, identity, meaning, justice and death through three seemingly separate stories. In his interviews, Gandhi regularly speaks about how the answers to the most profound philosophical inquiries can be found in the solace of biology.

'Ship of Theseus' is the very manifestation of this notion-it approaches the centu...