Starcast: Urmila Matondkar, Ashmit Patel, Naseerudin Shah, Dimple Kapadia & Raj Babbar

Producer: L. C. Singh

Director: Pankuj Parashar

Music: Himesh Reshamiya

Language - Audio: Hindi (Dolby Digital 5.1)

Subtitles: English

Running Time: approx. 121 Minutes

Code: All Regions (NTSC)

Synopsis: The film is about relationship ? relationship of humans with God and about the relationship off great men like Buddha, Kabir, Tulsi and Shankaracharya with Banaras. With this as the core subject, the film delves into the relationship of a loving young daughter, with her parents.

Shwetambari (Urmilla Matondkar), the bright young daughter of rich Brahmin parents (Dimple Kapadia and Raj Babbar) studies science at the local university in Banaras.

Soham (Ashmit Patel) a low caste mystic and a protégé of Babaji (Naseeruddin Shah), teaches music at the University. When the two fall in love, hell breaks loose in Banaras.

The orthodox and conservatives surface to the fore, threatening to take away everything form the young lovers. When her powerful parents try to ignore the social strictures for the happiness of their daughter, the dark forces and destiny take complete control.

A shattered Shwetambari makes a choice. She decides to abandon the very city she loves the most. In despair hopelessness she turns inwards to look for answers.