Ankahi Kahaniya

Pradeep (Abhishek Banerjee) left his rural village for a job in the closest big city, Mumbai. With no friends or girlfriend, he assuages his loneliness with the silent and unresponsive company of the store's new female mannequin. He talks to her, takes her on romantic outings after hours, buys her jewelry, gives her a name, accompanies "her" to movies, and divulges his secrets to her. His obsessive attentions are caught on the store's security camera. He's labeled depraved and his appalled boss fires him. Jobless Pradeep heads back to his rural home to see Mom. There he meets his childhood best friend Sashi (T.J. Bhanu), now grown and lovely. Seemingly emboldened by his experience "dating" the mannequin, he reestablishes their relationship, leading to an engagement. In the second chapter, Nandu (Delzad Hiwale), a former street kid, lives in a hovel and works as a projectionist at the local movie theater. He catches the eye of a local girl Manjari (Rinky Rajguru), who sneaks off to the movies from her unhappy, impoverished home. Together they plot an escape from their lives, with a plan that turns out to be murky, if not completely nonexistent, leaving us to wonder what will be next for them. The third vignette offers a view of upper middle-class Mumbai, where the problems of the uneducated, the homeless, and the starving are exchanged for the problems of the privileged, who needn't linger on where a next meal comes. With comfort and basic needs taken care of, these characters look for other troubles. Tanu (Zoya Hussein) learns her husband Arjun (Nikhil Dwiveldi) is having an affair with business acquaintance Natasha (Palomi Ghosh). Tanu persuades Natasha's husband Manav (Kunal Kapoor) to follow clues from texts and social media to trace the origins of the affair. Manav is ready to end his marriage over the affair but Tanu just wants her successful executive husband back. She fears divorce will free Natasha to couple with Arjun, a desertion she cannot contemplate. Tanu and Manav become friends and make surprising decisions.