The makers of "Katha Arunachi", a Marathi play based on the tragic journey of former KEM nurse, Aruna Shanbaug today recounted how a sense of compassion imbued them even as they were allowed to see her only from a distance while preparing to stage her story in 2002.

Vaijayanti Apte, wife of late Vinay Apte, who directed the play, remembered the interaction with doctors and nurses of KEM hospital associated with Aruna, who was in a vegetative state ever since the brutal rape by a ward boy Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki in 1973.