After his mother is raped when she goes out at night to defecate, a young boy takes it upon himself to build a toilet for her and writes a letter to the Prime Minister to help improve the conditions in his slum.
When Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra decides to come up with another film on the same subject (Toilet ek prem kattha), you might hope he may have something more to say. Does he? Almost.
While (TOILET- EPK) film was a love story where a husband works at building toilets for his wife, here, we have a young boy named Kanhu (Om Kanojiya) who wants to do the same for his mother. In his quest for his slum to have a toilet, he writes a letter to the Prime Minister and travels to Delhi from Mumbai, to deliver the letter to the PM.
The first thing that the filmmaker avoids is to politicise the issue like other films about the subject have done, which in itself is a commendable thing. He focuses on the story instead which elevates the film from being a propaganda machine.
The strongest part of the movie is the casting. The young actors do a solid job and totally steal the show.
The weakest part of the film seems to be the story. Their journey to Delhi that the kids partake in, could have been made a bit more interesting.
The film is a sweet, slice-of-life drama about a kid who loves his mother and wants her life to be just a little bit better.
