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The story unfolds around the struggle of Tithi, a young girl from a lower middle-class family in Bangladesh. Tithi becomes a call girl to support her family. Tithi’s brother gets married and surprisingly discovers that working can also give satisfaction. He opens up a business with the capital his sister made as a prostitute. Financially, things are getting better in the family but Tithi slowly becomes aloof and indifferent to everything. Even the touch of her own mother irritates her and makes her recall a man’s lust. She withdraws within herself and takes refuge in solitude.
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The film brings to light the lives of jatra artists and their struggles to make a living off the dying performing art.
During the Bangladeshi war for independence in 1971, a group of people flee from their villages towards a safe border.
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Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
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