Kaanchli Life in a Slough

Kaanchli- Life in a Slough
File:Kaanchli official poster.jpg Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Dedipya Joshii
Produced by	Dedipya Joshii Shobha Devi
Screenplay by	Dedipya Joshii Kailash Detha
Story by	Vijaydan Detha
Starring	Sanjay Mishra Shikha Malhotra
Cinematography	Jogendra Panda
Edited by	Aseem Sinha
Production company	Pisceann Pictures
Distributed by	Carnival Movie Network Carnival Cinemas
Release date	7 February 2020 (in Cinemas) 11 December 2020 (on OTT Platform)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi-Rajasthani

Kaanchli Life in a Slough is a 2020 Indian Hindi-Rajasthani language period Drama film produced and directed by Dedipya Joshii. Starring Sanjay Mishra Shikha Malhotra, Lalit Parimoo and Nareshpal Singh Chauhan. The film has been Co-produced by Shobha Devi and Presented by Anup Jalota. The film is based on a story by Vijaydan Detha, a folk story writer from Rajasthan, India. His stories have been adapted in many Hindi films including Shah Rukh Khan's Paheli. Kaanchli Life in a Slough has a message of social welfare attached to its theme. The film tells a story of a woman who is strong and self reliant in her struggle to survive in this world. The film has got released on 7 February 2020 with Carnival Movie Network and did well on Indian Box Office for Two Weeks.

Plot

The film is based on story of folklorist Vijadan Detha. Kishnu (Nareshpal Singh) got married with immensely beautiful women Kajri (Shikha Malhotra). Thakur of the village (Lalit Parimoo) had bad intentions towards Kajri so he asked his special man Bhoja (Sanjay Mishra) to get Kajri for him but Kajri was very loyal towards her husband and one day she attacked Thakur in her defence. Rather than praising her, Kishnu warns Kajri to not to behave like this with Thakur ever again and this was the heartbreak for Kajri as she never imagined a husband who will leave her alone to fight with the world. Sad Kajri was trying to convince herself that if her husband will see him with any other man he will definitely react. Here Bhoja fell in love with Kajri and this gave her idea to test her husband by using Bhoja to see her husband's reaction.

Cast

• Sanjay Mishra as Bhoja
• Shikha Malhotra as Kajri
• Lalit Parimoo as Thakur
• Nareshpal Singh Chouhan as Kishnu

Production

Development

The official announcement of the film was made in June 2018. Dedipya Joshii had been working on the script of the film from year 2008. The director says that after reading this story "Kenchuli" written by Vijaydan Detha he decided to make a film on it and started writing the first draft of it. After getting satisfied by completing the fourth draft soon he wrote a letter to Vijaydan Detha and also attached this draft. Surprisingly Vijaydan Detha called the director Dedipya Joshii and invited him to his house located in Borunda, Jodhpur. Dedipya Joshii shared that he stayed for few days with Vijaydan Detha and after knowing him personally he happily gave him the rights of his story '"Kenchuli"' with a compliment saying that after reading the script and talking over the phone with Dedipya Joshii he assumed him an old age and very experienced person and after meeting him he got really shocked seeing this young gentleman standing in front of him full of enthusiasm. As soon as Dedipya Joshii returned to Mumbai, he started working to execute this story in a feature film. After few days Vijaydan Detha written a very affectionate and hopeful letter to Dedipya Joshii saying;

Dear Dedipya, I Have decided to give you the rights to make this story which is very close to my heart after seeing the transparency within your soul through which you perceive things and execute them in your film making as well as in real life with your immense honesty and I hope that the transparency of your soul could reach to the people when you will present "Kenchuli" on the silver screen, Best wishes... ---Vijaydan Detha to Dedipya Joshii Director of Film Kaanchli Life in a Slough

Casting

The Director Dedipya Joshii first cast Shikha Malhotra as Kajri and then approached the in-demand star Sanjay Mishra as Bhoja and he said yes to the film, later he finalised Narespal Singh Chouhan as Kishnu and Lalit Parimoo as Thakur in the film.

Filming

The principal photography of the film commenced sometime in the November 2018 but during that time Sanjay Mishra had to travel Busan International Film Festival for his forth coming film Kaamyaab and the shooting schedule of "Kaanchli- Life in a Slough" got postponed for a month. Shooting finally began on 7 December 2018 in the interiors of Rajasthan, which is extremely cold during that time of the year. This led to lead actress Shikha Malhotra having to shoot raining shots for 3 continuous nights at the chilling cold of 2 degrees temperature on 1–3 January 2019 for the climax of the film. shooting schedule got completed on 4 January successfully.

Release

Kaanchli Life in a Slough had its Indian box-office release on 7 February 2020. and did well in the first week so its distributor Carnival Movie Network decided to continue the film for a second week in cinemas. In the month of December 2020, Kaanchli had its OTT release with Ultra India and premiered at 'Ultra Movie Parlour' on 11th December 2020 and in 40 days it has had two million views.

Awards

Cinema Aajtak Achievers Award- March-2020

• Won – Best Debut Actress (Female) 2020

External links

• Kaanchli Life in a Slough on IMDb
• Kaanchli Life in a Slough on Twitter