India, Oct. 21 -- Anuparna Roy's quietly powerful Songs of Forgotten Trees has travelled far-from a crumbling apartment in Mumbai to global applause at the Venice Film Festival. The award-winning filmmaker shares with Travel+Leisure India & South Asia how travel, memory, and the pursuit of personal liberation shape her art.

Excerpts From The Interview With Anuparna Roy T+L India: Songs of Forgotten Trees draws subtly on your memories of growing up in Purulia. How does place-village, city, transit-shape its cinematic language? Still from Songs of Forgotten Trees (2025) Anuparna Roy: The film, for me, was meant to be a city one, and not shot in Purulia or Assam. Yes, there are glimpses of Assam because it is the hometown of the protagoni...