Star Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Paresh Rawal, Raghuveer Yadav, Deepti Naval, Sanjay Suri, Shahana Goswami, Tisca Chopra, Dilip Joshi, Suchita Trivedi, Sumeet Raghavan, Vicky Ahuja, Amruta Subhash, Arun Kumar, Mohammad Samad, Nassar, Nowaz
DVD Features: Dolby® Digital (5.1)Surround, Anamorphic Widescreen, Play All Songs
Banner: Percept Picture Company
Music: Rajat Dholakia, Piyush Kanojia
Screenplay - direction: Nandita Das


Young Mohsin spends his days playing truant from the camp where he has been dumped after having lost his entire family. He is desperate to find his father and return home. Silent, suffering and battered wife, Deepti Naval does try and give him refuge by renaming him as Mohan and tending to his wounds. Yet, there isn't much she can do against her abusive, despotic husband (Paresh Rawal) who has played a dubious role in the riots. The upwardly mobile, inter-religious couple, Sameer and Anu (Sanjay Suri and Tisca Chopra) are ready to flee to a more cosmopolitan Delhi where Sameer may not have to hide his Muslim identity and take on his wife's surname to remain alive. Muneera (Shahana Goswami), the henna girl, returns to her plundered home with her infant and husband and ends up suspecting her best friend for the pillage. But it is the wizened musician Khan Sahib (Naseeruddin Shah) and his whining aide (Raghubir Yadav) who encapsulate the dying of an age of grace and tolerance in their silent lament, even as they embody hope for a new beginning. Khan Sahib berates his faithful retainer for not readying the house for the morning `baithaks' (sittings), where people from all communities would come to sing with him. The people have stopped coming, the music has been silenced and Khan sahib expresses his weary angst: I'm worried not because Hindus and Muslims are killing each other, but because humans are killing each other.