‘Poorna’, an eleven-year-old boy, runs away from his village and comes to a rapidly growing cosmopolitan determined to locate alcohol joints that sell alcohol made from a particular fruit (Mahua), he begins wandering the streets of the city. His quest is punctuated as the committee for the care and aid of children take him in custody and admit him in an observation home Poorna reveals that he needs to find a place called ‘Deid gully’ (Lane one and Half) where, one of his fathers friends, sells the Mahua alcohol. A resolute Poorna runs away from the observation home to continue his search. This film is Poorna’s journey to seek answers, A journey that raises several questions.
Mother
After her husband died, a mother buys a grinding-machine in order to make a living. Initially fascinated by the machine, her son starts getting irritated by its noise. He tries to destroy the machine to regain his childhood.
Gauri
The story of two sisters in a poor rural family in India as their family struggles to come to terms with compromises that they have to make in order to survive. Their father's illness forces the eldest sister to go to the big city to work as a prostitute, allowing her to send money home so the rest of the family can live in relative ease. The return of that sister to the village to attend the younger sister's wedding results in a showdown in the family, bringing to the surface the struggles and double standards of the parents in their willingness to accept money from the elder sister but at the same time wanting her to go away so as not to "spoil" their name and remind them of their guilt in forcing her into her city life and the moral compromises that they have made.
Mihir, an aspiring writer, leads a normal life with his family who are worried about his son’s imaginary friend. He wants to attend a flat-earthers conference to get ideas for his book. What does he discover at the conference? What happens to his son’s imaginary friend? Is believing in a flat Earth really as strange as it sounds? Is Mihir just writing stories, or is he also telling himself a story? Arabian Nights is a story of stories and their place in the life of humans.
