Not one to follow the set norms, filmmaker Zoya Akhtar has believed in doing things at her own will and pace. She has completed a decade in Bollywood but one look at her filmography four feature films, three anthologies and two episodes of a web series it’s evident that Zoya isn’t running any race. “You know, I don’t feel I need to keep having a release,” she says on being asked why we don’t see her direct more often.

Zoya made her directorial debut in 2009 with Luck By Chance and she followed it up with films such as Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara , Dil Dhadakne Do and Gully Boy .

“I took so long to make films. So when I finally did it, I actually made two films back to back and I was exhausted,” shares Zoya, who further goes on to reveals, “Also, at that point, I was dating a Spanish guy who lived in London, so I spent lot of time away, in Europe, with him. So, it was kind of a break I took because I had been working consistently and it felt nice.”

Refusing to compare her body of work with other filmmakers, Zoya insists that she needs to get that push from within and only then she can make a film. “I have to have a story I really want to tell, and then it makes sense to put things out there. So if you see, 2018 was again crazy for me.