India, April 11 -- What is Bisaat about?

Bisaat is a chessboard of relationships, betrayal, deceit, lies and most importantly murder. While a murder mystery is generally devoid of deep relationships, Bisaat also has some fabulous take on the relationships that are on the darker side. This is what interested me even more to direct this series.

Can you talk me through the shooting process?

The shoot was to get over in 35 days and I took 50 days to shoot it. I think my company was conspiring to throw me out as a director. But, we ended up doing a fabulous job. I had a great cast to start with, Omkar, Sandeepa, Leena Jumani, Jia Mustafa and Coral Bhamra, all are good actors. But, I had some characters in my mind and I wanted the actors to ...