Revealing details Bhavna says, it'd based on a story by Pankaj Kapoor.
About Dharam and the controversies surrounding its rejection at the Oscars, Bhavna says, "I'm very calm. The whole of experience (of fighting against Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Eklavya being sent to the Oscars instead of Dharam) has made me realize that Dharam is a film with a very long shelf- life."
Bhavna's new film Awasthi is a comedy. "It's completely different from Dharam. It's a Chaplinesque comedy. It'll make a comment on Mumbai city. So little space, so many people in your face, and yet such loneliness!"
There're so many films being made on the spirit of Mumbai.
"But my film won't be about the city, it's about the individual and his or her isolation. When I go abroad to the US and UK people are so lonely and depressed they go through therapy to remain sane.
The same scenario is happening in Mumbai. I don't get to meet my sister who lives in Mumbai more than once a month. Why don't we have the time to connect with people? It's become an epidemic."
Bhavna is excited about working with Pankaj again. "I'm dying to get back behind the camera again."