Hindu fundamentalists, including the Maharaja and Abhyankar, are furious and plot to murder Gandhi. Under Abhyankar's influence, Ram comes to the belief that Gandhi is solely responsible for the division of India and of the two religions and also of having supported whom they viewed as the enemy. After seeing Lalwani's misery, Ram realises he has still not gotten over Aparna's murder. During a hunting trip with Abhyankar and the Maharaja, Ram is reunited with his old Sindhi friend from Calcutta, Manohar Lalwani, who lost his family and home in the riots. However, on their honeymoon in Maharashtra, Ram and Mythili bump into a disguised Abhyankar, who introduces them to a dethroned Maharaja. The mob forgives them, but Ram refuses to.Īlthough Ram remains aloof at first, he slowly falls in love with Mythili.
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When questioned about whether they take full responsibility for the riots, both of them accept it and ask for forgiveness.
Ram travels to Calcutta alone and joins a mob that confronts Gandhi and Suhrawardy, the Chief Minister of Bengal, about the bloody riots. During his first night, he learns that Mythili, like her family, are supporters of Gandhi and that the Mahatma will be visiting Calcutta a few days later on the anniversary of the bloody riots. While his wedding is being celebrated across the village, Ram tells his childhood friends Vedha and Yegham that he has no reason to be happy since the world's biggest political divorce is going on with the separation of Pakistan in the north. He is then married to the daughter of family friends, Mythili. Ram asks for his identification and he identifies himself as a hindu by chanting few mantras.Īfter a year, Back in his hometown of Thanjavur, Ram's brother Bashyahm and sister Vasantha urge him to remarry. Outside his house, Ram runs into Shriram Abhyankar, a Thanjavur Marathi who is leading a group of a Hindus. Saket, unable to cope with his tragic loss, kills them. When he returns to his house, he is attacked and hostage by his family tailor, Altaf and a group of Muslims. While out to get some food, Ram manages to save an innocent Sikh girl from a Muslim mob. On his way home, he witnesses the riots and chaos during Direct Action Day. Although many Indian Muslims plan to move to Pakistan, Amjad decides to stay in India as he believes it is his homeland and he does not wish to live under Sharia law.Īfter the archaeological site is shut down out of fear of riots, young Ram returns to Calcutta to be with his wife, Aparna. Saket and Amjad do not approve of partition and the creation of Pakistan. Relations are good between the Indians and the English. The scene cuts to the 1940s, when Ram and his Pathan Muslim friend, Amjad Ali Khan are archaeologists working together under Mortimer Wheeler, in Mohenjo-daro in the Sindh province, in what was then North-West India. As his grandson narrates the story, the dying Saket Ram relives it. The younger Ram explains how he grew up listening to his grandfather's stories and proceeds to narrate one of his grandfather's strange stories that he plans to use for his next novel. He is being taken care of by his grandson (also named Saket Ram) who is a famous novelist who writes historical fiction, and their family doctor, Munawar. The movie begins in the present, with Saket Ram, an 89-year-old Hindu man at his death bed in Madras. ( July 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This film's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed.
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