A year after he told Anjali Patil that they have "more work to do together" when wrapping up the shoot of Mirziya (2016), Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra took the script of his passion-project, Mere Pyare Prime Minister, to the National Award-winning actor. "He crafted my character with a lot of detail," says Patil, who plays the role of a single mother, a slum resident who is raped when she goes to relive herself in the open.

Talking about her role, a single mother to a young boy (played by Om Kanojiya), Patil says, "My character's back-story is traced to Kutch, where she becomes pregnant. The [lover] runs away, so she decides to raise the kid alone. She turns up in Mumbai and becomes a strong, single mother. I was told that despite living in the slums, and belonging to the lower income group, this mother would not refrain from celebrating her beauty, or her life."