A tree outside Vinod Kamble’s home in a village in Barshi block of Maharashtra’s Solapur district planted in him a love for movies early in life. A local exhibitor’s men would arrive every other week with a new film poster to put up on the tree. They would give the boy’s uncle, a sweeper with the municipality, a free pass for a show.
“I would sneak out with those tickets and watch films,” the 32-year-old writer-director reveals. “Nor was that all. I would take a few. . .