Lighting a film set used to be a man’s world in Bollywood. This was until Hetal Dedhia entered the scene. Daughter of renowned gaffer Mulchand Dedhia, Hetal knew what she wanted right from her school days. “Studying was never my forte. I was always good at sports, on the field,” she recalls. “As a kid, I was fascinated by my dad planning shoots over a landline phone, while he drew the lighting designs manually. So when I left school, I went straight for the sets!” says Dedhia, India’s first woman gaffer.