Shooting in Delhi for his next - the story of a Mumbai boy who comes to meet the pradhan mantri because he wants to build a toilet for his mother in their slum - Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra speaks out on why we have always seen our slums from a western perspective and the blatant hypocrisy of a society obsessed with ritual cleansing, but not basic sanitation. You say that whatever you are thinking about, whatever you believe in, is what reflects in your work. When did this topic - the need for building more toilets - come into your mindspace? There is a series of dots which got plotted. Some 30 years ago I went to Bombay, ab toh Mumbai ho gaya hai. All this while I have been telling stories of...
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