he has a terminal brain tumor. Having acquired supplies to fix the billboard, Vilas takes credit when he finds it repainted in the morning. Bhonsle exposes his lie, and Vilas is humiliated that Bhonsle took the migrants side instead of his own. Bhonsle is heartbroken when he is informed that his service extension with the police is contingent on a medical check-up. As Sita returns from her night shift, Vilas kidnaps her and then rapes her. Bhonsle finds Sita badly injured, and confronts Vilas, finding bloodstains in his taxi. The two fight and are both fatally injured, while on the last day of Ganesh Chaturthi the idol is sunk into the ocean. Cast Manoj Bajpayee as Ganpath Bhonsle Santosh Juvekar as Vilas Ipshita Chakraborty Singh as Sita Virat Vaibhav as Lalu Abhishek Banerjee as Rajendra Rajendra Sisadkar as Talpade Kailash Waghmare as Sawant Shrikant Yadav as Mhatre Neetu Pande as Mrs. Jha Dev Mehta as Ismail Production Makhija started writing the script of Bhonsle in 2011 and completed it in 2015 but could not gain interest from producers. In 2016, Makhija directed an 11-minute short film titled Taandav starring Manoj Bajpayee, about a head constable who breaks out into a dance to deal with the strains of his life. Bajpayee had suggested him to make a short "to prove that they could carry off the idea". Makhija said that he made the short because he was not able to make Bhonsle. He said that the purpose of the short was to "show the world that a film about a havaldar (constable) could be interesting." Makhija took inspiration for Bhonsale's mannerisms from his father who had become "something else" after Makhija left for Mumbai from his hometown Kolkata. The script was selected by the National Film Development Corporation of India for their event, Film Bazaar in 2016. The film's principal photography began on 21 October 2017. The Ganpati festival scene was shot for two days in Mumbai in August, forming a backdrop in the film. For the pullout shot on the day of the Ganpati immersion, Bajpayee was placed in the crowd of 70,000 people. The scene took six retakes to complete and throughout the shoot no one recognised Bajpayee. The filming was completed in late December 2017. Several scenes were shot in closed narrow spaces as Makhija wanted to "create a sense of suffocation". Reception Deborah Young of The Hollywood