The Sky Is Pink director Shonali Bose's cinema draws from the personal

The first script she wrote became the National Film Award-winning Amu, based on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots that had left a lasting impact on Bose while she was at college

The sky is pink, the highlights in her hair are blue; Shonali Bose does not like the question, “What’s next for you?” “I have no idea what I’ll do next,” the film director frets, during an interview in Toronto a few days before the world premiere of her latest film, The Sky Is Pink, at the Toronto International Film Festival or TIFF. “I envy other filmmakers,” she adds, “They are making one film and they have so many ideas and I’m thinking, ‘Oh, how lucky’. I’m so immersed when I’m making a film and I have a panic attack when