Pragya Tiwari (segment "The Apartment")
An anthology that brings five unique creators and filmmakers to tell stories about love, happiness, friendship, new beginnings, second chances and a glimmer of hope - set and filmed in the times of the COVID-19 lockdown.
Nandita
Ratna es una joven que se queda viuda a los 19 años, tras haberse casado el año anterior. Tras este suceso, decide viajar a la ciudad de Mumbai, donde comienza a trabajar como la criada de Ashwin, el hijo de una famosa familia de arquitectos. El propio Ashwin ha tenido otro revés en su vida amorosa: su boda, que estaba a punto de celebrarse, se ha cancelado en el último minuto por una infidelidad llevada a cabo por su prometida. Centrándose únicamente en su trabajo, el comportamiento de Ashwin comenzará a cambiar cuando la relación con Ratna prometa ser algo más que la relación entre una criada y su señor.
Namita
Set in the city of Uttar Pradesh and based on true events, the plot revolves around Dr Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras who taught Marathi at Aligarh Muslim University. He was sacked from his position of Reader and Chair of Modern Indian Languages, on charges of homosexuality. A sting operation was conducted by a TV channel which showed him in an embrace with a rickshaw puller, at his house inside the campus.
Tamanna
A female superstar struggles through the trials and tribulations of being a Bollywood actress.
Neha
Coming from a country like India that is still in denial, where being HIV+ is still a curse, '68 Pages' rips open the underbelly of its society to reveal how it stigmatizes and shuns those who are HIV+ or even those who just want to be what they are. Through 68 Pages of a counselors diary, we see the stories of Paayal, a sex worker; Nishit, an ID user; Kiran, a gay man and Umrao, a transsexual bar dancer - their stories of pain and fear, humiliation and rejection - not only by the society, but even by their loved ones.
