[1] Anis Kidwai was born in 1906 in Barabanki, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh into a patriotic and orthodox family of Awadh.
[3] Anis married her cousin Shafi Ahmed Kidwai in 1920 and lived with him first in Allahabad and then in other cities, wherever her husband's job took them.
[2] In October 1947, her husband was murdered in a brutal communal attack, and this catapulted Anis into her role as an activist and a writer.
[2] Anis Kidwai's political career began in part due to the death of her brother-in-law Rafi on 24 October 1954.
Anis Kidwai served as a Member of the Parliament from the Indian National Congress party from Bihar at the Rajya Sabha for two terms, from 1956 to 1962 and then from 1962 to 1968.
During her tenure, she participated actively in the proceedings alongside other women MPs like Savitry Devi Nigam, Dr Seeta Parmanand and Subhadra Joshi.
This film is based on the accounts of two social workers, Anis Kidwai and Kamala Ben Patel who had rescued abducted women for three years after partition.