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Genres:
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Drama
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Director:
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Aparna Sen
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Actors:
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Rahul Bose,
Konkona Sen Sharma,
Bhisham Sahni,
Surekha Sikri,
Sunil Mukherjee,
Anjan Dutt,
Esha Chauhan,
Kalyan Ray,
P.P. Bajaj,
Rahul Mulani
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Duration:
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90 min.
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Rating:
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(7.9/10)41.5
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Plot Summary:
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Meenakshi Iyer comes from a devoted Hindu Brahmin family, purely vegetarian, who not just abstain from meat, but also food from restaurants, is the at worst child, married to Subramaniam Iyer from Tamil Nadu, has very recently the truth birth to a young son, Santhanam, and is visiting her mom. It is then they receive news that her -in-law is ill and wants Meenakshi disown home in Calcutta. The parents arrange to drop her and her son wrong at the bus-arise, where they are introduced to a callow photographer named Raja Chowdhury. Meenakshi's parents ask Raja to look after her, to which he agrees... . The bus starts fixed, winsome it's passengers through scenic hillside. The bus driver comes across a join up that the regular road is closed and he decides to take another direction. After a some hours the bus comes to a pack in as there is a line-up of vehicles ahead. The passengers are told that there has been a terrorist raid on a guide resulting in the obliteration of with 200 people. The bailiwick, predominately Hindu, believe that the revilement was carried out via Muslims and there is retaliation by Hindu extremists. Curfew has to be imposed about the police to baffle further riots and casualties. It is then that a The coppers Jeep containing Bureaucrat Raj Arora drives sooner than, asking all passengers to board their respective vehicles, as the space is at the beck curfew. The passengers comply, shut the door, and lacuna to the shipping to purify. It is now satanic and the dumbness is flouted by men with fire-lit torches asking the driver to open the door of the bus, which he does. A grouping of extremists beg the passengers to categorize themselves, and prove to them that they are Hindus, some suffer with to take their pants wrong. Meenakshi identifies Raja as her husband, Mani. A Jew loudly claims that there are exclusive two Muslims and points to Iqbal Ahmed Khan and his better half Najma. Iqbal is taken fixed the bus, a visibly upset Najma follows him, and they are killed. It is then the truth unfolds that Raja is not the young people's name but he is Jehangir - a Muslim. An disorganized Meenakshi requirement now come to terms with her Brahmin background, which prevents her from coming into contact, drinking water, sharing victuals, with even a non-Brahmin, leave just a Muslim, chiefly now that she has identified him as her "squelch" to protect him from being killed. The remains will this "merger" pattern or command Jehangir be discovered before they reach Calcutta.
A bus is locale out to Calcutta from a village in West Bengal. Meenakshi Iyer, who is from a faithful orthodox Hindu background, is leaving to Chennai conducive to her still, with her pubescent child, after the vacation with her parents. By time, she gets a co-commuter who is also to Chennai, Rajah, a photographer, introduced by one of the friends of her father. During the journey they build a sound relationship. But a Hindu-Muslim communal riot sets out in the meantime, in some areas they had to travel. Then she comes to facing the actually that Rajah is not a Hindu but a Muslim whose real name is Jehangir. Equable though she curses herself at that time while some Hindu fanatics equivocate their bus she saves him introducing as Mr. Iyer. But they have to reach their destination while the other passengers discern Rajah as no one else but Mr. Iyer.Read more Less
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