Jnanpith award-winning writer Dr Bhalchandra Nemade was asked by mediapersons about his take on the renaming of Aurangabad in September 2015. Nemade inquired if the city’s civic problems were over and renaming was the only governance issue left to tackle. He observed that renaming is the business of idlers and shirkers who add to the postman’s work hours. Journalists laughed over the line, now saved in a database of in-your-face Nemadespeak. The comment became unedited footage for Akshay Indikar’s 90-minute docu-fiction film (while Nemade plays himself, some of the characters from his books are also portrayed by actors) on the living Marathi litterateur, who recently turned 78.

In the part documentary-part fiction film, Nemade plays himself while characters from his works come alive