New Delhi, Sept. 20 -- Actor-turned-filmmaker Tannishtha Chatterjee has revealed the extraordinary challenges she faced while completing her film 'Full Plate', including a personal battle with stage 4 oligo-metastatic cancer.

"The film was anyway very difficult to make," Chatterjee told The Hollywood Reporter India. "Our initial financier ran into problems, and it was tough to finish. My co-producers came on board, and I finally completed the edit. I was so relieved-and then, just as I was about to go into music and sound, all this happened. I had to rush into treatment."

Chatterjee explained the intensity of her treatment: "The first 10 days are really bad. You feel like you won't live. But the next 11 days, everything looks positive. ...