After making her directorial debut with “Roam Rome Mein” (2019), which premiered at the Busan International Film Festival and won the Marie Claire Asia Star Award, Indian filmmaker and actor Tannishtha Chatterjee faced her greatest challenge yet while completing her sophomore effort “ Full Plate ” — a cancer diagnosis that threatened to derail the entire production. This year, Chatterjee won the Marie Claire Visionary Director Award.

“Yes I got diagnosed when we were in post production. Everything became doubly tough in an already difficult situation,” the director reveals. “It was not something small. It was about whether I will live.”

The social drama, starring Kirti Kulhari alongside Sharib Hashmi, Indraniel Sengupta, Monica Dogra, and Sachin Chaudhary, centers on Amreen, a Musl

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