On holiday from boarding school, young Ishvaku is fascinated by the bedtime story his mother relates to him—that of the warrior Ashwatthama, from the Mahabharata, whose blind vengeance provokes a curse from Lord Krishna, forcing him to wander the earth in eternal suffering. But the story is interrupted by a bandit raid in which Ishvaku’s mother is killed, and Ishvaku is packed off to his ancestral village in the Chambal Valley ravines of Central India. There he discovers a family in crisis, whose rituals, traditions and orthodox feudal values are becoming redundant. Meanwhile, Ishvaku’s own life take a strange turn, as a visiting sacred bull predicts that both wisdom and tragedy will soon come to him. In anticipation of such tragedy, Ishvaku attempts to escape into the magical realm of Ashwatthama
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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.
