Parched 2015
In the arid landscape of Rajasthan, four women navigate their way through personal and cultural difficulties.
In the arid landscape of Rajasthan, four women navigate their way through personal and cultural difficulties.
A grandfather, police officer and a priest join hands to investigate and find a missing child.
Rameshchandra Chaudhry, a lawyer by profession, is in love with Hemnalini, and is displeased when he finds that his father wants him to marry Sushilla, the daughter of a widow. He initially refuses despite of his father disowning him, but changes his mind when the bride's mother pleads with him, and gets married without even seeing, leave alone getting to know his bride. After the marriage, they board a boat which overturns after a storm, and they end up being the only survivors. Unable to get Hemnalini out of his mind, he refuses to be intimate with his bride. On talking with her gradually over the next few months, it slowly sinks in that she is not Sushilla but Kamla - the bride of another male! The question remains: what can he do under these circumstances, and what impact will this have on Kamla - who has traditionally accepted him as her husband.
To chase her dream of going to school in her remote Himalayan village, a feisty paraplegic girl locks horns with her tradition-bound grandfather.
A rich boy (Vasan) indulges in various bizarre experiments to have different experiences. He eats in a five star hotel without money, he wears girls’ outfit in a show room, he prefers to go to jail just for the heck of it, and he hires a sex worker and lets her sleep alone...A girl (Aanandhi), daughter of an NRI, staying alone in the city. She is making a documentary film on persons belonging to the fringe world. She meets the convicts in the prison and the sex workers for her documentary. The emotional game between them leads to an unpredictable climax.