Jhund is the Hindi film debut of Nagraj Popatrao Manjule, one of India's most prominent anti-caste voices of contemporary times. Nagraj Manjule's 'Aatpat' production house has made significant contributions to Indian cinema with 'Pistulya', 'Fandry', 'Sairat', 'Naal' and some shorts like 'Pavsacha Nibandh' and the most recent 'Vaikunth' in the Unpaused anthology. Manjule has created an iconic signature brand in the Indian film industry by his revolutionary, traditionally-subaltern and yet rising narratives of the historically oppressed sections of society. With Jhund, Manjule has created a reflexive mirror for the dominant Savarna storytellers of Bollywood who naturally focus on victimisation of Dalit testimonies. In Jhund, Manjule confronts caste, among other forms of social inequities, ongoing discrimination and hierarchies with an anti-caste lens and aesthetics.