Nikkhil Advani recalls Aram Nagar days with Irrfan Khan, Manoj Bajpayee

Nikkhil Advani, backing Rohan Kanawade’s Marathi film Sabar Bonda, says the purity of the storytelling reminded him of the filmmaker he once aspired to be. He feels indie artistes today are more united than mainstream filmmakers, as he recalls Aram Nagar days with Irrfan Khan, Manoj Bajpayee, and Anurag Kashyap

Rarely does this emotion strike filmmakers, but when it does, it hits hard. Nikkhil Advani experienced it — that feeling of a filmmaker reminding you of your younger self — when he watched Rohan Kanawade’s Sabar Bonda. “Rohan is the filmmaker we set out to be 30 years ago. But along the way, we had to take other decisions,” he says. “The purity with which Rohan has made the film is beautiful.”

Sabar Bonda tells the story of Anand, who, while navigating the grief of his father’