individually girish kulkarni and nipun dharmadhikari have acclaimed projects to their names while girish has won two national awards before nipun too has joined the bandwagon after his marathi film dhappa won the national award for best film on national integration in a chat with us the writerdirector duo speaks about how the film came to be its sociopolitical relevance and why artistes need to continue speaking their minds in todays times excerptsnipun dhappa technically is your debut feature film however baapjanma released firsttell us about the whole process of making this filmon my birthday in 2015 girish called asking when we are doing a film together he had narrated this story to me before i think he is one of the most prolific writers in the country and his work is proof of that coming to the film i think the auditions that we held for casting the children in the film was the most fun part at one point writing and making changes in the story was taking a little while so we were doing the casting simultaneously i also had another deadline to meet that of my marriage laughs and i couldnt compromise on that still we took the risk and started working on the film the whole process was new for me as well because i was working with children for the first time we selected 19 kids from around 500 through auditions as for the story i think it has a sociopolitical relevance not just in todays times but in general because of the way we live in the societythe film won an award for national integration girish from your perspective how relevant is it in current timesdhappas story was ready with me a while ago and it definitely has a sociopolitical relevance however that relevance was more in the last couple of years in different eras there are different things that we are told to refrain from talking about its not just about the current scenario having said that as an artiste you feel the urge to present what you want to say and you work towards that dhappa too is about this feeling of course the films weve worked on have always been relevant to our lives and times and this one is no different after all a film is a document of an era and in that sense i think the film is releasing at the right timeyour thought about censorship on films considering the examples of padmaavat s durga and nudegirish i feel that being rational is very difficult in this country it was difficult for mahatma gandhi as well you try to speak logic and people will oppose you and this is irrespective of the regime we faced a similar issue when we did deool as well it was a different government then but there was opposition not just as an artiste but as a human being i will always want my voice to be heard if there