The theme behind the film revolved initially around weapons of mass destruction and technology getting into the wrong hands. The bomb blast that took place at Zaveri Bazaar and the gateway of India on August 25, 2003, made me focus the film on the blast and portray the mindless destruction of human lives and properties. I started collecting footage related to Black Monday (blast on August 25). With some 6 hours of raw footage consisting of the footage on the day of the bomb blast, interviews with the eyewitnesses, victims, and their relatives, various forms of reactions that happened after the blast, and the few secular activities in the city, I was faced with the major task of editing them and making a short film out of them. I also saw the potential of making a full-length documentary with the collected footage on the construction of communalism in India, which would require more time and research. After repeated watching of the footage and reading about communal terrorism, I decided to focus the film on themes like religious misconceptions and extremism and the co-existence of love and hate in a cosmopolitan setting.