[1] The film is set in Old Delhi and deals with the story of a romantic Urdu poet, now dying anonymously, and the struggle between his daughter and an opportunist publisher.

[3] Urdu, the Hindustani language whose words resonate music, is fast dying.

Babba's state of nonchalant bliss inadvertently drives his daughter Minni into a world of bitter silences.

And across the road lives Pappan, a small-time debt-ridden publisher who is eyeing Babba's treasured verses and his beautiful daughter.

A self-indulgent, romantic old man, a stoic but essentially soft-hearted daughter and an opportunist but naive publisher.