IFFI Director and filmmaker Shekhar Kapur met Seema Biswas, the star of his iconic 1994 film Bandit Queen, at the festival in Goa the other day. Shekhar took to Instagram to share a picture featuring him with Seema and wrote a long note reminiscing about making the film. Calling it his "most intense film" ever, the filmmaker said that the intensity seeped into him and his actors during its production. "It was so lovely to come across Seema Biswas after years, at the Indian International Film Festival in Goa. And strange that the intensity of making that film still burns inside me. And I can only imagine how Seema must have felt during the shooting of the film. Or what she went through to play that part with the amazing intensity that she did !" Shekhar Kapur wrote.

Seema employed a methodical process to immerse herself fully into the role of Phoolan Devi in the 1994 film. Shekhar said that she has that intensity about her even after all these years. "Being causal with Seema did not come easy," the filmmaker wrote before suggesting that she had to put in the effort to make him feel comfortable during their recent meeting. "I can still smell, feel, and often still be traumatised by the memories of making Bandit Queen," he wrote.

Shekhar Kapur also said that he would never make such a film again in his career. "Every film I make, I become each character myself .. I become the story.. I become the landscape .. I become the film itself .. Well, who ever said film making was an easy job .. maybe I should have stayed a Chartered Accountant ?" the filmmaker quipped.

In a recent conversation, Seema told us that she felt that Bandit Queen would even go on to become her final film.