Vidyarthy Chatterjee recalls an event called Bhavni Bhavai:

More than a quarter of century has passed since I first saw that breathtaking film about how “untouchables” lived and died in poverty, squalor and abject degradation- in Gujarat once upon a time. It was a cold January day and the venue of the screening was Mavalankar Auditorium on Rafi marg in New Delhi. Bhavani Bhavai left the audience speechless with its then 28 year old director Ketan Mehta’s daring innovative style, its formal experimentation, its visual richness, the hilarious, energetic performances of its leading players, and its deeply moving story which could be easily followed despite its disinterest in linearity. Radical as much in form as in its politics, Bhavni Bhavai was, however, the kind of event that Mehta was destined not to re-visit in course of a disappointingly uneven career.