I wanted to write something for the Mumbai Mantras Screen Writer’s workshop in 2013. Long ago in the nineties, an acquaintance had mentioned how she was very happy to get married because she hated her mother. That almost casual remark from her stayed with me because I found it so different from the way I looked at my mother because my mother and I share an extremely close relationship. In fact, whatever I am, I kind of attribute what my mother has passed down to me. So, I think if I didn’t have that kind of foundation of trust, friendship, love and respect for my mother, what would I have been? Could I turn out to be a rebel, the way I am? The characters are Marathi from the world of literary art and all that I have experienced through my mother as well as myself. So that came naturally to me. That was how I started off with. Of course, Masha, the third generation, happened because I felt the true perspective wasn’t really enough. I wanted a sort of circularity to the whole thing and how it had become cyclical almost. That’s how Masha came into the picture. I took three years to complete the script. The process continued even after that because there was an end number of drafts. It was only in 2018 I felt that the script had come to a point when I could pitch it to the producers. Luckily for me, Sidharth Malhotra loved it when I narrated it to him. And he backed it completely and it was he who suggested Kajol’s name and that’s how she came on board. She loved the script too and then everything else fell into place.