"Just the other day, we were doing mandavali," says filmmaker Reema Kagti as she leans back comfortably on a plush couch at Zoya Akhtar's sea-facing house in Mumbai's Bandra. Mandavali is a Marathi word, which means trying to reach a consensus after disagreements or discussion. In the case of Zoya and Reema, who have together delivered a slew of hits like Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011), Talaash (2012) and Gully Boy (2019), that mandavali a few days back was over stories and scripts they will be working on in 2024. This year has been an "especially jammed" one for the two. May saw the release of their web series Dahaad (Amazon Prime Video), a crime drama centred around a serial killer, and in August came the much-awaited season two of Made in Heaven (2019-). These days, they're looking forward to the December release of their highly-anticipated feature, The Archies, on Netflix. "We are exhausted," says Zoya. "I want to deliver the film and then we will start writing."
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