The Veil

1984, Meerut a town in India was facing communal riots between the Hindus and the Muslims for months together. Life had come to a standstill as schools were shut, shutters of shops were pulled down as every now and then sporadic incidents were taking place, flaring up the town, the list of deaths and missing persons were going up in the police records. Armed men guarded their respective locality. Nevertheless births were taking place, marriages were happening as families went to neighboring towns to get their children married.

In a midst of all these, a young girl gets out of her house to go to deliver a wedding veil she has stitched for Sakeena, her Muslim client, the wedding was near and she had promised. She manages to reach but on her return she is caught up in riot. She runs for cover only to collide with an armed man....

Imran Hussain was Sakeena's elder brother. He was one of the most sought after boys of the locality. His sister's friends wanted to get introduced with him, making a nuisance of themselves more often than not causing him much embarrassment so he avoided young girls like plague. That afternoon he was on guard when he heard a commotion in his house, a whisper going around that his sister had a visitor from the 'other' locality....