Set in post-colonial India, Qissa tells the story of Umber Singh, a Sikh who is forced to flee his village due to ethnic cleansing at the time of partition in 1947. Umber decides to fight fate and builds a new home for his family. When Umber marries his youngest child Kanwar to Neeli, a girl of lower caste, the family is faced with the truth of their identities; as individual ambitions and destinies collide in a struggle with eternity.
Zoya
A photographer at the Gateway of India (Mumbai) is drawn by the sudden urge to photograph a stranger. She doesn't speak his language. They are worlds apart.
Newsreader
Jamal K. Malik é um jovem que trabalha servindo chá em uma empresa de telemarketing. Sua infância foi difícil, tendo que fugir da miséria e violência para conseguir chegar ao emprego atual. Um dia ele se inscreve no popular programa de TV "Quem Quer Ser um Milionário?". Inicialmente desacreditado, ele encontra em fatos de sua vida as respostas das perguntas feitas.
Sheela
Abhay Joshi, a young, bright Special Police Officer (SPO) conducts a police raid on a dingy hotel in the suburbs of Mumbai. Though the police arrest few prostitutes along with their customers in the disgusting small rooms of the hotel, Abhay seems disappointed. He had information about a graver crime. Just then, he hears a muffled scream. He spots a thin boy escaping from beneath the hotel. Few minor girls run behind him. By the time police reaches the secret door, the boy and the girls disappear into the narrow lanes. .
