DOCU DRAMA
Looks like Mallika Sherawat’s international debut Hisss, in which she played a man-eating snake goddess, was a disaster on screen and off it too. During the making of the film, Sherawat and the producers— her brother Vikram Singh and good friend Govind Menon—sidelined the director Jennifer Lynch, forcing her to quit the film. Two years later, a miffed Lynch has made a behindthe-scenes documentary titled Despite the gods. It features footage of Lynch’s desperation to keep a grip on her film during the shoots and engaging in verbal duels with Sherawat’s brother.