After working as a production assistant in Ang Lee's The Ice Storm (Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Tobey Maguire, Elijah Wood, Christina Ricci), Andrew Davis's The Perfect Murder (Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen) and Mira Nair's The Perez Family (Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei, Angelica Huston) and assisting director Ashutosh Gowariker in the Oscar-nominated Lagaan, Apoorva finally realised his dream by turning director with MSAMD.

The debutant director has had his share of controversy; actor Abhishek Kapoor (he made his debut in Uff Yeh Mohabbat opposite Twinkle Khanna) claimed the MSAMD script belonged to him.

"I worked really hard on the script. If someone else comes and claims your house doesn't belong to you, wouldn't you fight back? It's a shameful claim," an angry Apoorva told rediff.com.

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