Tannishtha turns writer for Onir with an unusual love story about driving lessons

The very talented actress Tannishtha Chatterjee is on to her new vocation. Tannishtha turns writer with a film entitled Driving Lessons. Says Tannishtha, It s an idea I had been toying with for some time about a relationship that grows between a driving instructor and the woman whom he teaches to drive over a period of two weeks. The film addresses issues such as class differences and women s empowerment but in a light unostentatious way. I didn t want my first attempt at writing to be top-heavy with ideas and messages.

The challenge of playing a woman who is not economically challenged was what attracted Tannishtha to this film. I think I ve done enough of those roles that require me to be impoverished and oppressed. Though the challenge of making every underprivileged character dignified and unvanquished is welcome at the moment I am done with playing these crushed, oppressed women in crumpled cotton sarees. The last of these roles for now is in director Amit Kumar s Monsoon Shootout where I play Nawazuddin s wife once again. I shot for this film seven years ago.

In Driving Lessons Tannishtha has written a classy role from the upper-class for herself. It feels different to be playing a woman who doesn t have to constantly worry about how to feed herself and her children, she laughs.

The film directed by Onir pairs Tannishtha with Onir s prot g Ashish Bisht. Apparently Bisht plays a younger man to Tannishta s character of the bored housewife in search of excitement behind the wheels.

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