As a filmmaker I wanted to experiment with the film and that is why when I thought of Bhor, I only thought of two things i.e I want to make a realistic film and second, I want to make a film on a subject which is being talked about so I chose the issue of sanitation and then we wrote a story on sanitation. I wanted the ‘Musahar’ community to be the focus of my film because I felt that they are the last people in our society and the success or failure of any policy or programme can be tested on the criteria, whether it has reached the last person or not. I wanted to show their reaction to a unique situation, through a girl from that society, who demands a proper toilet in her husband’s house soon after marriage and what happens when the toilet is finally constructed or when she continues her education after marriage.
The idea intrigued me and that’s why I chose this as the main plot. So, when I wrote the script, I wanted a big banner to partner with me on this film. I went to a few…