Harish Baraskar

When a sudden bird flu outbreak in Maharashtra leads to a government-ordered culling, a poultry farmer’s eleven-year-old son fights to save his beloved pet rooster, Mangya. A coming-of-age tale of innocence, resistance and feathered friendship!

A thirty-year-old city-dweller compelled to spend ten-day mourning of his father in the rugged countryside of Western India tenderly bonds with a local farmer struggling to stay unmarried. As the mourning ends, forcing his return, he must decide the fate of his relationship born under duress.