"Things I've been dealing with my whole life in the work, it all came together in this," Mehta told The National Post . "Not only the issues on the surface of women's rights and safety and patriarchy and what led to that kind of intense violence — all of those things which were very much on the forefront of the discourse — but other things like the class system and entrenched leftovers from not just the British but kind of a 3,000-year-old tradition of isolation, segregation in society, gender biases... infrastructure in society, how things are set up in an overpopulated environment."