Guneet, 29, is the CEO of Anurag Kashyap Films, and is known to have always supported young breed of filmmakers when it comes to producing a movie.
The producer recalls an incident where she sold her house to finance a movie titled "Monsoon Shootout" directed by debutante Amit Kumar three years ago.
"I sold my home to produce a movie... The film is called 'Monsoon shootout'. It hasn't released yet. It has a nine year long journey of raising finance. The director was supposed to release it under the UK-India treaty but because of depression the producers pulled off the money.
She was here to present her recently released movie "The Lunchbox", which was also the opening film of DIFF.
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As for "The Lunchbox" which has travelled festivals around the world, Guneet said the team never imagined the movie would become so successful.
"Ritesh Batra (director) was working on another script and we were doing rounds of co-production market for that film. But he later came with this movie idea and said he wants to work on it. He took 15 days to work on this story and from the scripting stage we knew that it would be a beautiful film. The expectations were high and we were nervous about how will it shape up on-screen. But after screening it at the Cannes, the response was overwhelming," she said.