As a patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a son to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for its transgender starlet.
Pakistan, 2071. There have been no reported instances of terrorism or violent crime in over 30 years. The cost: the systemic subjugation of all human emotion.
Over an intimate conversation whilst cooking with her grandmother, eight year-old Nithya learns of the tie between heritage and food and how new borders cut her Chettiar family off from their childhood home.
Roshan Raahein is a story of a girl who inspires a community to realize their strength – a proof of when everyone works together; they overcome the darkness with their light.
