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
Em Mumbai, a jovem viúva Ratna trabalha como serva de Ashwin, um homem de família rica. Embora Ashwin pareça ter tudo, Ratna pode sentir que ele desistiu de seus objetivos e está perdido. Por outro lado, Ratna, que parece não ter nada, vive cheia de esperança e trabalha com determinação em busca de seu sonho de ser tornar uma estilista. À medida que crescem seus sentimentos um pelo outro, seus mundos, muito diferentes, colidem.
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.
