[3] It stars Anjali Patil, Om Kanojiya, Atul Kulkarni, Makrand Deshpande, Niteesh Wadhwa and Rasika Agashe.

[14] The story revolves around the film's eight-year-old protagonist, Kannu (Kanojia), who lives in a slum and dreams of building a toilet for his mother.

After his mother Sargam (Patil) is raped when she goes out in the night to defecate in the open, Kannu takes charge of improving the conditions in the slum.

In his quest to build a toilet, Kannu writes a letter to the prime minister and travels to New Delhi from Mumbai with his comrades Ringtone (Bharti) and Nirala (Prasad).

The buildings are taller now but there are still slums around them that have always intrigued me and made me follow the path of Salaam Bombay, Slumdog Millionaire and other stories which have grown out of them."

[17] Critical review: Rajen Sen of Hindustan Times gave Mere Pyare Prime Minister three stars out of five, calling it 'an earnest fairy-tale, modest but far from memorable'.