Pitaah (2002)

Pitaah, a father, is that facet of a male personality, which everybody, right from a child to an adult, identifies with in this ocean of humanity called The World. All over the world a father and child relationship is the one which, apart from all others, manifests itself in only one language and that is Love and Affection. It is a relationship, which no force on earth can even think of disturbing. Needless to say a father-child bond and its intensity delves in the hearts of the rich and the poor alike.

But then, where there is good there is evil. What happens when a father's patience is tried? When this same evil strikes his very own child?

Pitaah is the story of one such father Rudra.

Rudra's family comprises of his wife, Paro, twin sons Luv and Kush and a 9-year-old daughter Durga. They live in a small basti in a village named Shikarpur situated in the Northern part of India.

This basti and its inhabitants are a cursed lot, ordained to work under a despot named Thakur Avadh Narayan Singh. The Thakur has made sure that the whole basti is at his mercy and lives in fear. The whole basti lives in the shadows of some painful memories of the past.

The Thakur's wife remains a mute witness to his despotic ways and tries to make him see reason whenever she can, but to no avail. The Thakur on the other hand instills his feudal ways into their two sons, Bachchu and Bhola, in the process making them an arrogant duo. They follow in their father's footsteps leading a lifestyle, which obviously makes them blind to the after effects of the same.

On many an occasion the Thakur's atrocities do not escape an otherwise naive mind of Rudra. But what can he do? Nothing...

Bachchu and Bhola are cruising through life enjoying their escapades obviously encouraged by the Thakur while their mother watches helplessly. On one such occasion, Bachchu and Bhola go to a nearby village to spend the night with a Mujra Dancer. The next morning they leave to come back to their haveli in Shikarpur, not knowing that this journey back home is about to change their fate.

What happens? How does it change even Rudra and his family's life? How does one incident change a docile father into a roaring lion?

Pitaah - a film which tells you to Never try a father's patience. Ever.

(From the official press booklet)