Anubhav Sinha on ‘Assi,’ Patriarchy and Courtroom Realism: ‘This Is a Story of Rape. This Is Not the Story of an Individual’

Anubhav Sinha spent years carrying the unease before “Assi” became a film. The director, whose socially driven second act began with “Mulk” in 2018, tells Variety that the subject of sexual violence never fully left him between news cycles and candle-march protests. “Maybe it goes away from your front lobe,” he says, “but it stays […]