Growing up in a Bollywood video rental shop in the 1980s meant that films were a central part of my life from a very young age. They played constantly (mainly because I was pirating some of them!!). They were woven into family conversations, domestic routines, and everyday life. Songs, dialogue, storylines, and images looped through my home, embedding themselves into my memory without effort or intention. As an artist and a storyteller, I have always been drawn to dialogue an