India, March 1 -- Fourteen years after her directorial debut Dhobi Ghat, Kiran Rao's sophomore venture, Laapataa Ladies, hits theatres today. She may have not been calling action and cut, but she's always been on the radar, whether as the Chairperson of Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival or as the co-producer and wife (now ex-wife) of actor Aamir Khan. She admits she's been busy but laapataa (lost), and has begun to find herself with her new movie.

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"I was laapataa without really intending to be. I was in the world of storytelling, but in the background. There was that frustration where I was waiting to make the right...