Kaanchli Life in a Slough

The official announcement of the film was made in June 2018. Dedipya Joshii had been working on the script of the film from year 2008. The director says that after reading this story "Kenchuli" written by Vijaydan Detha he decided to make a film on it and started writing the first draft of it. After getting satisfied by completing the fourth draft soon he wrote a letter to Vijaydan Detha and also attached this draft. Surprisingly Vijaydan Detha called the director Dedipya Joshii and invited him to his house located in Borunda, Jodhpur. Dedipya Joshii shared that he stayed for few days with Vijaydan Detha and after knowing him personally he happily gave him the rights of his story '"Kenchuli"' with a compliment saying that after reading the script and talking over the phone with Dedipya Joshii he assumed him an old age and very experienced person and after meeting him he got really shocked seeing this young gentleman standing in front of him full of enthusiasm. As soon as Dedipya Joshii returned to Mumbai, he started working to execute this story in a feature film. After few days Vijaydan Detha written a very affectionate and hopeful letter to Dedipya Joshii saying;[17]

Dear Dedipya, I Have decided to give you the rights to make this story which is very close to my heart after seeing the transparency within your soul through which you perceive things and execute them in your film making as well as in real life with your immense honesty and I hope that the transparency of your soul could reach to the people when you will present "Kenchuli" on the silver screen, Best wishes... ---Vijaydan Detha to Dedipya Joshii Director of Film Kaanchli Life in a Slough

The Director Dedipya Joshii first cast Shikha Malhotra[18] as Kajri and then approached the in-demand star Sanjay Mishra as Bhoja and he said yes to the film, later he finalised Narespal Singh Chouhan as Kishnu and Lalit Parimoo as Thakur in the film.

The principal photography of the film commenced sometime in the November 2018 but during that time Sanjay Mishra had to travel Busan International Film Festival for his forth coming film Kaamyaab and the shooting schedule of "Kaanchli- Life in a Slough" got postponed for a month. Shooting finally began on 7 December 2018 in the interiors of Rajasthan[19], which is extremely cold during that time of the year.[20] This led to lead actress Shikha Malhotra having to shoot raining shots for 3 continuous nights at the chilling cold of 2 degrees temperature on 1–3 January 2019 for the climax of the film.[21] shooting schedule got completed on 4 January successfully.

Kaanchli Life in a Slough had its Indian box-office release on 7 February 2020.[22][23] and did well in the first week so its distributor Carnival Movie Network decided to continue the film for a second week in cinemas.