
It’s an important part of their education’, says her aunt, eventually convincing her. ‘You shed your clothes on your own! The students don’t look at you as an object of lust. Unable to find work, she is proposed the idea of working as a nude model for students of the Sir J.J school of Arts by her aunt Akka (Chhaya Kadam). Nude, co-written by Jadhav and Sachin Kundalkar, is about the journey of Yamuna (Kalyanee Mulay), who moves to Mumbai along with her son in search of a better life, after being at the receiving end of an abusive marriage. It was eventually cleared for release without any cuts with an A-rating. It also faced a plagiarism charge by the writer Manisha Kulshetra, who claimed that the film was an adaptation of her short story Kalindi. The film was, ironically, excluded from International Film Festival of India last year, thanks to a mandate by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, citing vulgarity, after being unanimously selected by the Jury as the opening title in the Indian panorama section. Nude has seen its share of controversy leading up to its release. With his latest work Nude, Jadhav makes a powerful statement about the patriarchal Indian mindset that a woman’s integrity is linked to how she chooses to present her body to the world.

His films, ranging from the national-award winning biopic Balgandharva (2011), to the box office sensation Timepass (2014), have consolidated his reputation as a master of both commercial and art-house cinema.
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Ravi Jadhav is a household name in Maharashtra.
