That first Radio in the village which changed everyone's life...
A period drama, the film is based on Ismat Chugtai's most celebrated story "Lihaaf" (published 1942). The film inter weaves the plot of same sex relationship between Begum and her masseuse and the trial that Ismat underwent after being slapped with a case of obscenity on publishing the story. The film raises themes of homosexuality and freedom of speech that our society is grappling with even today.
Nazia is a simple girl from a village close to the borderlines who gets married to Nabeel, the grandson of Nooran from across the border. Nazia's happiness is quashed when a war starts between the two nations. Will Nazia be reunited with her love?
Saru is married to a police officer named Pratap. But Pratap's impotency creates a rift between Saru and him, owing to which Saru finds solace in the company of Pratap's childhood friend Sunil, and a love affair commences between them
