At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he survived alone for weeks on the rough streets of Calcutta before ultimately being transferred to an agency and adopted by a couple in Australia.

"A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects Ila, a neglected housewife, to Saajan ... , a lonely man on the verge of retirement"--Container.

Inspired from the 2002 violence in Gujarat, this drama follows the lives of different people directly or indirectly affected by the riots, from a compassionate woman in an orthodox Gujarati family living with a stone-hearted husband, an urban cross-culture couple with a Hindu wife and a Muslim husband, a poor Muslim couple whose house is charred to ashes during the riots to an old Muslim singer. As their stories unfold and intertwine, we see the harrowing...

Nilesh is a call centre executive who misses his last local train at 1:40 am. He meets Madhu, who also misses the train. Since there is an auto strike, they decide to take a walk. The duo then attend a bar that changes their life upside down.