Regarding her role in Arth,Rohini Hattangadi stated "Arth was towards the beginning, immediately after Gandhi. I never knew who Mahesh Bhatt was, or anything about the Hindi film industry. Only Kiran Vairale I knew from theatre and she said, 'Mahesh is looking for you and I will give you his address and you should go and meet him.' Shabana (Azmi) sent me a message: 'Don't say no to him, it's a good role.' So I went and met him and it was the maid's role which I think I liked actually. I liked the whole soul of that character because- they are so near to our lives, such characters. I remember my maid when I was a child. She was not formally educated. Her daughter was two years younger to me, she was studying in the same school as mine. So my mother used to keep my clothes, my school books, my uniformsthat I had outgrown. She used to keep those and pass them to her. Then afterwards I came to know, when I left Pune for the National School of Drama (NSD), that my maid's daughter, she went on to do the Montessori course and she was teaching in Montessori. So she had achieved something being a maid's daughter. So I had that in mind. And when I got to do this role, I immediately related to that.".
