Last year, Mrs Undercover director Anushree Mehta had told mid-day that she, along with her business partners Abir Sengupta and Sameer Raj Sippy, would revisit Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s classics Bawarchi (1972) and Mili (1975) (That ’70s charm, July 12). When the trio began discussing the prospective writers and directors who could remake the gems, they realised the answer was in front of them all along. “Sameer and Abir said, ‘Why don’t you write and direct [Bawarchi] because the genre is right up your alley?’ As a filmmaker, I want to speak to family audiences. So, I lapped it up,” beams Mehta.