But first to rewind a bit, her marriage to soft ware engineer Kishore Bopardikar in 1997 and subsequent shifting of her base to San Francisco gave her the time to think about what she really wanted to do. And as it turned out it was film making! “I was always intrigued by the process of film making. So even before I left for San Francisco, I knew I would learn filmmaking. After marriage I wasted no time and joined a course on film making at Academy of Arts from the San Francisco University for three years and finally realised that I had more of a film maker in me than an actor,” she smiles.

Not just that, the lady also managed to get an editing internship with George Lucas’ company and worked as an assistant editor and saw special effects being put into place for movies like Star Wars, Pearl Harbour and The Perfect Storm. “It was one heck of a learning experience for me. And I was thoroughly motivated to make a film,” she says. In 2002 she came back to India to make a 35 minutes long documentary on Warli art that was even selected for the Mumbai International Film Festival that year. “Though I came back after shooting the documentary, a few friends filled up the form and sent my movie for the festival. To my surprise it got selected too,” she says.

But Bhave had different priorities at that time-which was playing mommy to her two kids—a role she thoroughly enjoyed. “It has been great being a wife and mother all along. In fact I could do so much only because of my husband’s constant support towards me,” she says. And though her five-year-old son Sameer and four-year-old daughter Sachi took most of her time, Bhave took the decision to make a film the day she read the script of Kadachit. “When Chandrakant Kulkarni read out the script, I wanted to work on it immediately,” she says.

Leaving most of the creative decision to Kulkarni, Bhave just initially just wanted to produce this film. And in her own words, the film is an honest effort to project something that appeals her sensibilities. “It talks about a father-daughter relationship, revolves around emotions and is certainly a slice of an urbane woman’s life,” she explains.