Raised in a Marathi-speaking household in Patna and educated at Ballygunge Shiksha Sadan in Kolkata, Mulay’s early fascination with cinema stemmed from her mother, documentary filmmaker Vijaya Mulay. After a brief stint as the face of a Pears Soap campaign that attracted Mrinal Sen’s attention, she appeared in his landmark film Bhuvan Shome before pursuing studies at McGill University, where she e…