Concerned by Lata's growing friendship with poet Amit Chatterji, Rupa Mehra enlists the help of a friend to find her headstrong daughter a husband.When Rupa meets enthusiastic shoemaker Haresh Khanna she is immediately charmed, but Lata is not so easily convinced.Banished to the countryside with his Urdu tutor, Maan is preoccupied by thoughts of Saeeda Bai. But as his eyes are opened to the hardships of rural life, he becomes an unlikely warrior for social justice
