Sooni Taraporevala is obviously nervous. Funnily enough, she’s nervous about a film. Now, Taraporevala is a veteran when it comes to the film industry - she has written the screenplay for movies like Salaam Bombay and The Namesake. However, what she has not done is direct a film. And now she’s out with her maiden directorial venture - Little Zizou. This humorous story is centers around a Parsi kid who idolises French legend Zinedine Zidane. It’s also the tussle between two Parsi families in Bombay. The film had its premiere at the Indo-American Arts Council film festival in New York and is expected to release in the spring of 2009. Taraporevala has mostly worked with director Mira Nair and in an interview, she starts by talking about how Nair, who was also involved with this project, helped her in this debut behind the camera:

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