India, Feb. 28 -- Achal Mishra's new film is a perceptive and illuminating portrait of noted Indian writer Vinod Kumar Shukla. It offers a visual landscape that leads the viewer (and reader) to the space where the writer has inhabited for years; a space where he wrote and lived. Composed of striking shots that sees a writer looking back at his life and longings, Chaar Phool Hain Aur Duniya Hai is a wonderful and thought provoking document of a life lived in creative pursuit and fulfillment. (Also read: Ri review: Achal Mishra's sublime portrait of Ladakh is a box of contradictions)

Ahead of the release of the film on Mubi, Hindustan Times caught up with director Achal Mishra on the journey of making this film, and seeing the writer up cl...