Here we see reporter Samdish Bhatia chatting up Raju and Sumit (who didn’t want to reveal their last names) while cleaning the open naala in Chembur

When a team of about seven to eight people set out to make a documentary on the lives of sewage workers in Mumbai, the question they asked themselves was what could they say or show that had not been done before. Then somebody suggested going inside the sewage pipe. And Samdish Bhatia, who was to be the reporter in the film, volunteered. This was going to be for the next episode of the docu series called Chase, a joint collaboration between online platforms ScoopWhoop and Newslaundry. “I wanted to experience it first hand. The YouTube audience wouldn’t care for a film like this unless you show something stark. The idea was to have a city boy who’s no different from you, doing this,” says the 23-year-old.