India, Feb. 24 -- From casting Taapsee Pannu to the risks of portraying sexual assault on screen, filmmaker Anubhav Sinha reflects on audience readiness, the creative freedom OTT offers, and how AI could reshape storytelling-all while staying true to films that connect with the heart while promoting his new film Assi. IBNS-TWF correspondent Souvik Ghosh brings excerpts of his conversation with Sinha...

Q. Assi- the title drawn from an average 80 rapes reported in India daily, confronts the crisis of sexual violence in and the film uses this stark statistic as its thematic anchor. The story centres on the abduction and gang rape of a school teacher and follows the emotional, legal and societal aftermath of the crime. But how different is ...