The scene starts with voice over and introduces the village of gaghargar a place near gorakpur...the voice goes on to say that villages do talk he goes onto say that if there is pain in the chest and hope in the heart, he says that villages nearby are quiet as there is no one around, some have commited suicede and others go to other villages to look for fod and leave there kids with narupmama...she is then introduced as a girl who is close to her father and a sister to the local kids
Nirupama, is then shown singing a song with the kids from the village, whilst she is singing about finding a raj kumar, a guy on a horse is seen. as the singing and dancing contuines a women is seen running in the field and sunsets and the women calls out Nirupama and she calls the women mausi and she informs niru that her father has fallen in the well...
some local people are seen trying to help her father by throwing the rope but he refuses to grab it and Niru is running towards her father, she goes down and her father is is talking to himself about the zameen being so dry, a women tells Niru that hes refusing to take the rope Niru tells her father to grab the rope and come back up her father gets happy after seeing her and tells her that hes dug up alot of the zameen and now water will come, Niru tells her father that people have come to help and tells him to grab the rope and come up but refuses and tells her that he is down here to get water and he tells her to join her aswell, and the rest of the people start taunting her that her father has gone mental but Niru tells them that her dad isnt mad and they are making a big deal out of nothing but the people carry on taunting and tell her that her dad should be in a mental asylum...
Mausi then tells everyone they should be ashamed of themselves, that Niru does alot for everyone and instead of helping her father they are taunting her...Niru prays to god to show her a way out and tells her father that the clouds have come and its going to rain and tells him to come up, her father looks up and says he cant see the clouds and Niru says he wont be able to see from there he needs to get out of there and see and he then gets happy and agree's to come out, the villiagers then get together and help him out.
As he gets out he says that once it rains then all the problems wil be over for the vilage, he then asks Niru where the clouds are, and Niru replies that they wil be back and she tells him to come home for a while but he refuses and calls her a liar...mausi tells him to come home and not to trouble Niru but he says hes not troubling her and doesnt want to go home and tries going back down the ladder but is stopped.
All the villagers are gathered together and fed up of Niru's father they say that everyday he does something new and today a decsion has to be taken about. him and a decsion is taken in mute....Niru gets up and starts shouting at everyone and tells everyone to stop caling him mad or else and then villager asks her what will she do if they dont stop and grabs her by the arm, Niru's father gets up and starts fighting the guy but Niru and Mausi stop him and take him away
At home Niru is tending to her fathers injurys and tells him to get some rest, as he goes in mausi comes running in and tells her the villiagers are really angry, Niru replies that she will take care of it and Mausi asks how long will she keep doing this but Niru says she wont let anything happen to her father...Mausi sits her down and explains that she is tired of explaining to him all the time, she tells her that he is the father that bought you 2 sisters up without a mother but today he is acting like a child and tells Niru has she thought what wil happen when she gets married and who wil look after him...Niru replies that she promised her mum she will always look after her father and she wont break that promise...she tells mausi that she has made a decsion that she wil never get married and her father is her resposibility and she wont turn her back on her responsibilitys, mausi tells her that her father must have done some good deeds in his previous life to get a daughter like her...Mausi advises Niru to take her dad to mumbai and get him checked out and tells her that her sister wil help her in a time of need, but Niru says no as her sister is happily married and doesnt want to cause any problems and mausi tells her that there is no other way. Niru starts having flashbacks of the villagers taunting her
The next morning Niru is paking suitcases and her father asks her what is she doing and is she going somewhere and she replies that they are both going to see sardhaa di in mumbai, he gets confused hearing this and she reminds him that sardhaa di got married in mumbai and he then remembers but refuses to go to mumbai as alot of work has to be done and he tells her to call her sister here and Niru preplies that she wont come here as he taught her that sasuraal is her new home, he then gets up and leaves.
Outside her father is looking around and Niru comes out, and tells her father that it wont rain yet and by the time it does they wil be back but he refuses again and she says fine dont go then you wont get to see the river, he gets excited at the prospect of seeing water and agree's to go and wil bring lots of water back with them for the village, he tells her if we go now we can be back in the evening and saying this he goes inside...Niru starts apologising to her father for lying to him and taking him away from his village.