Dashrath (segment 'Geeli Pucchi')
관계가 망가지기 시작했다. 무엇이 사랑을 파국으로 몰아갔는가.
외면하고 있던 불편한 감정에 불을 지핀 뜻밖의 요소. 그것이 진정한 원인이었는지는 당사자만이 알고 있다. 관계를 고찰하는 4가지 단편 이야기.
Santram
고요한 시골 마을에 정부의 새 신분증을 선전하기 위해 일행이 도착한다. 파르수아는 모두가 꺼려하는 신분증을 가장 먼저 발급 받고 일약 스타가 된다. 어느 날, 신분증의 일련번호 때문에 아내가 곧 죽게 될 거라는 점괘를 받아든 파르수아는 아내를 살리기 위해 긴 모험을 떠난다.
Tailor
A young widow is hired as the domestic helper for a wealthy architect, but social divides come to the fore as an unlikely attraction grows between them.
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.
