Ramesh Gohil

The film is set in a lower middle class chawl, an apartment building in Mumbai, a 20-year-old and unmarried Kamla, unable to handle the news of her pregnancy commits suicide. This makes her neighbourhood examine their own secrets and the choices they have made in their own lives.

Devant une somme de 500 roupies à sa mère, Krishna, un jeune garçon, travaille dans un cirque ambulant. Cependant, les forains sont partis sans lui ; il se retrouve alors à Bombay, où il devient porteur de thé et en hérite le nom : "Chaipu".