Director Shankar Dhotre’s film Potra highlights impact of menstrual cycle on the life of a girl

MENARCHE OR a girl’s first period is an event of celebration in Shirapur village in Solapur district from where 29-year-old filmmaker Shankar Arjun Dhotre belongs. Dhotre observed that the customs followed to mark the menarche has the girl worshipped the first day but isolated from everyone thereafter. “The girl is treated like a goddess but soon she is asked to not touch anything or sit with anyone. I never understood why, and the question remained with me since then,” he said.