Chabiwala - The Keysmith

'Chabiwala' opens with Bhaben, 30s, a benevolent keysmith, offering the key to his heart, 'sohag chabi', to his beloved Fatima, 21, village headman's daughter. Her father sees their secret romance as sheer blasphemy. Not only Bhaben belongs to a different faith, but also is no match in terms of Fatimas' status quo. Hence, down the lane, the dearest gets hitched to someone ticking the boxes, afar in the city, which leaves Bhaben to a seemingly impossible dream to come up to the city making keys and find Fatima in the haystack of concrete.

En route, Bhaben meets Amlan, 59, a celebrated writer, baffled in the non-creative limbo, remains goggled to a hideous past and its consequences. Amlan asks Bhaben to make a key for a drawer where he keeps his sleeping pills and continues to lose it. Meanwhile, Fatima oscillates between rummaging the truth of a woman being raped by her husband and saving him from the alleged sin. Unknowingly, she recruits Zaira as a lawyer for the case, who happens to be Amlan's wife. Zaira has stopped looking for Amlan confining himself to a self inflicted exile.

How very obscure that all these characters are locked in a thread of intertwined labyrinth hoping for a key. So is Bhaben's animated friend Bhukharam, posing abstract aids or be it Nagen, a prey to his starving son, gives in to risky easy money.

The film unfurls in the hope of these long lost lovers ever chancing upon each other in this odd colossal city. Well, the answer is eventually left to the key of destiny.