India, Sept. 7 -- Anuparna Roy sounds happy, tired, content- a mix of a lot of emotions as she speaks to HT City exclusively after her historic win at the world's oldest film festival, the Venice International Film Festival. She became the first Indian to lift the Best Director award for her film Songs of Forgotten Trees.

With everyone around telling her about her creating history, she quips, "All these statements are making me humble. I am pretty sure there will be a lot of responsibility after this win. I cannot lie back and enjoy hearing that I have created history. Come on! I am inspired by many other- and better- women filmmakers from within and outside India. It's not just me, it's cinema which has created history again. I would lo...