Kaanchli Life in a Slough is a 2020 Indian Hindi-Rajasthani language period Drama film produced and directed by Dedipya Joshii. Starring Sanjay MishraShikha 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 got married with immensely beautiful women Kajri. Thakur of the village had bad intentions towards Kajri so he asked his special man Bhoja 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.
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;
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.
