I wanted ‘Mapping Love’ to be poetic and metaphorical in nature: Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari on debut novel

Director Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari does not consider herself a “quintessential author” but as someone who grew up with stories, the filmmaker is happy to have made her novel debut with “Mapping Love”, a love story that she has been working on for the last three years. The director, best known for critically-acclaimed films such as “Nil Battey Sannata”, “Bareilly Ki Barfi” and “Panga”, said she had an idea about the kind of book she wanted to write but kept postponing it.

“I started writing it three years ago. I am not a quintessential author but as a writer. You do write, but it is a different format of writing. In movies, you are writing a screenplay, you are showing ”this is what it is” and the audience looks at it and takes something out of it. In a book, you are creating a world through words and metaphors…” Iyer Tiwari told PTI in an interview.

“I wanted ‘Mapping Love’ to be very poetic and metaphorical in nature, which I may not be able to write in a screenplay because it is feeling versus showing. Like words will evoke feelings through books whereas, in the movie, the visuals will evoke a feeling,” she added.