Dashrath (segment 'Geeli Pucchi')
Cuatro historias que exploran cómo un factor inesperado puede agitar emociones incómodas que permanecían latentes en relaciones quebradas.
Santram
A group of people from government arrives to promote the new identification cards. Parsua becomes the first who has the card that everyone is reluctant to have, and becomes a star. One day, Parsua receives a divination sign that his wife will die due to the serial number.
Tailor
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.
Street food vendor
In Bombay's seedy-shiny film world, Manto and his stories are widely read and accepted. But as sectarian violence engulfs the nation, Manto makes the difficult choice of leaving his beloved Bombay. In Lahore, he finds himself bereft of friends and unable to find takers for his writings.
Security Guard
Charu and her friends share a rented apartment in a sky-rise in Mumbai. All in their mid-twenties, and each hailing from different parts of the country, they have come here to make this bustling metro their home. One day a labourer comes to paint a soiled wall at her house. Irritated that her flat-mate did not inform her, she asks the man to hurry up. A few minutes later, she finds him unconscious on the floor...
A successful Indian scientist returns home to his village to take his nanny back to America with him, and in the process rediscovers his roots.
