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In 1938 Colonial India, against
the backdrop of Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, eight-year-old
Chuyia (Sarala) finds out her husband has died and is taken by
her father to an ashram, a home where Hindu widows live out
their lives in penitence. Chuyia's feisty presence starts to
affect the lives of the other residents, including Kalyani
(Lisa Ray), the ashram's "breadwinner," who is barely in her
twenties. Kaylani breaks tradition and falls for a young
upper-class Gandhian idealist (John Abraham), forcing all the
women to question both their faith and future. Even Chuyia is
caught in the wind of change. |
