The story revolves around a young girl named Pakki in Kaliganj where all the girls are protected under strict surveillance before they are married. This results in zero freedom of their own until marriage. But before they can start their married life, they must go through a test of purity (Ganga kii Dheej). The test is to find out if the girl is pure or not and if not, she has committed some sort of impure thing or had an impure thought in her life. This is carried out by Maha Mai, who asks that the bride to be to walk 25 steps holding her hand, while underwater. Sharmi, who is Pakki's friend makes it 24 steps before she cannot hold her breath any longer. Maha Mai calls her impure and this makes Sharmi's father rage and throw a stone at Maha Mai, who in return gets Sharmi stoned as a punishment from the villagers and sent to Nark ki Dawar, where the impure girls live their entire life and her family is shamed and never spoken to again.

Ganga, a bright village girl, is saved by Shankar in an act that leaves him crippled. She agrees to marry wealthy Ranjit but is accused of infidelity on their wedding day. Shankar exposes the truth, and Ganga marries him instead, only to face hostility from his family and a vengeful Ranjit.

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Entrenched practice sets the stage for the union of Rudra and Priya, who marry not out of love but out of familial compulsion to facilitate the marriage of their respective siblings. Whether love can bloom in such circumstances.

Gangavati joins a band of dacoits to avenge her family.

Nishant, a young Indian writer living in Paris, is journeying down the Ganges, from its source in the Himalayas to the sea. Haunted by the fantasy, or the memory, of a beautiful Parisian woman called Jaya, he plans to write a book around his voyage. On the banks of the turquoise Ganges, one morning, he chances upon Zehra, an irresistible poetess-dancing girl in the tradition of the great courtesans, who performs in a nearby brothel. Zehra resurrects the memory of Jaya. As love casts its spell once again on Nishant, he asks Zehra to join him on his journey, but her illusory freedom is shadowed by a formidable network of the brothel's spies. Nonetheless, Nishant manages to make Zehra flee from the brothel and join him on his journey. Romance takes over. A new life begins for Zehra as Nishant would like her to accompany him back to Paris. Half way down the river, at the height of their romance, Nishant receives a telegram. Zehra soon realises how Nishant's fantasy of a half-real, ...

Documentary directed by Jörg Hissen and Rolf Lambert

Ganga Devi is the story of a woman who graduates from the college in political science and then becomes the wife of a social worker. The movie aims at depicting the current situation of the politics in India.

Greed drives a married woman with children to force her husband into marrying a rich girl. As she enjoys her newfound wealth, she realises that her family finds comfort in the company of the new wife.

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