After being tossed around for 12 years Nawazuddin Siddiqui has found his métier. And how! A self-proclaimed famished actor Nawaz has quite suddenly come into his own during the past two years with a seemingly ceaseless string of whopping performances in out-of-the-box films.

Amit Kumar’s directorial debut Monsoon Shootout, a dark edgy thriller about a cop and a gangster battling it out in the rain-drenched Mumbai city, has got selected for a screening at the 66th Cannes Film festival. Amit stuns you by revealing that the film’s genesis and evolution has taken 9 years. “We started developing the film in 2004.We finishing scripting in 2008 and then we shot the film. Funnily I never got frustrated by the delay. I crawled along and hoped something good would come of it.”