Religion

The film is set in Banaras. Chaturvedi is a Hindu priest. He lives strictly by the scriptures. One day a woman abandons a child. The priest’s daughter brings the child home. The family hesitates at first. Then, at his wife’s insistence, they take the child in. Four years later they learn the child is Muslim. The family gives the child up. Chaturvedi enters into rites of purification. Then fighting breaks out between Hindu and Muslim communities. The child comes back, seeking refuge. Hrishitaa Bhatt and Pankaj Tripathi are also in the cast. Pankaj Kapur and Supriya Pathak take the leads in Bhavna Talwar’s Indian film of 2007.