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Chatting up filmmaker Rahul Riji Nair whose debut feature film Light in the Room has been shortlisted for Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival’s Gold section. An engineer-turned-filmmaker, Rahul Riji Nair decided to make his first feature film on marital rape. Titled Light in the Room, the film is the recipient of the Kerala State Film Award. It has also been shortlisted in the Gold section of the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival that starts from October 25. We chat with Nair to know why he decided to turn to filmmaking and how he is learning to balance the commerce with the arts. You are an engineer, but you eventually turned to filmmaking. Can you tell us about the influence that the arts have on you? I was brought up in a time, when most of the youngsters either wanted to be an engineer or a doctor. I was also a part of the flow. I chose to go for engineering because it was the easier option in front of me. After that, I did my MBA and took up employment in an IT firm as a marketing man...