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The story focalizes on one such young girl, Chuyia (Sarala) who is recently widowed at the tender age of eight...

Madhumati (Manorma), a widow in her mid-70s, is the house matriarch...

Shakuntala (Seema Biswas) is one of the 14 widows sharing the household into which Chuyia is forced to move...

Kalyani (Lisa Ray) is breathtaking, and the only widow whose hair is not shorn, as a nod to her profession which was forced upon her at an early age by the powerful head widow Madhumati...

Narayan, who has just finished his law degree, is an idealist and follower of Gandhi's Quit India Movement. Through pure chance Narayan meets Kalyani...

Narayan ignores the cultural taboos and continues to meet Kalyani in order to marry her. But marriage to widows is strictly forbidden...

What then follows will forever change their lives, and the life of little Chuyia...

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