Janki is repeatedly beaten and raped by Gulab.Īfter being threatened by a pimp, Gulab and his friends take out their anger on Kishan. Gulab's unhappy marriage exacerbates his anger issues and poor attitude towards women. She has been increasingly turning down offers for sex work which irks her boss, who threatens to replace her with a new younger girl Rekha (Tanya Sachdeva). The conservative and patriarchal village men are seen to be constantly visiting Bijli. The elders reluctantly agree and this angers some men in the village, including Gulab, who resent Kishan for trying to liberate the women. The women reveal at the Panchayat that Kishan has secured a large contract for their handicrafts and so they are prepared to save money for the installation of televisions.
Kishan is a forward thinking local entrepreneur and employs women in the village for craft and handloom jobs. Kishan and his wife try intervening but are ridiculed for their progressive opinions. The Panchayat forces her to return despite her revelation that her husband's male family members all rape her. The first issue is of a girl named Champa ( Sayani Gupta) who ran away from her husband and tried to return to her parents. Later, at the Gram Panchayat, the village participates in solving local issues. The anonymous calls started off as a wrong number but has developed into coy flirting. While at Janki's house, Rani receives calls on a cell phone given to her by Gulab. Meanwhile, Gulab and his friends are seen harassing an educated, working woman, until her husband, Kishan ( Sumeet Vyas) approaches. The movie begins with Rani and Lajjo visiting another village to meet Janki and her family. Bijli acts as an advisor to both Rani and Lajjo. The fourth woman is Bijli ( Surveen Chawla), an erotic dancer in a travelling entertainment company.
Having failed to conceive, Laajjo is mocked for being infertile and therefore worthless in the eyes of her husband and society.
Lajjo is in an abusive marriage with an alcoholic husband, Manoj (Mahesh Balraj). Lajjo ( Radhika Apte) lives in the same village as Rani, and is a close friend and aid in Rani's struggles. Janki ( Lehar Khan), the child bride, hopes to stop the marriage by chopping off her hair but is still forced into the relation. Meanwhile, Gulab is disrespectful, rebellious, and prefers to loiter with a gang of friends, spending time with sex workers. Following village customs, Rani marries Gulab off to a child bride by paying a hefty sum to the bride's family. Rani ( Tannishtha Chatterjee) is a widow struggling to support her old mother-in-law and teenage son, Gulab ( Riddhi Sen). The village and the society are plagued by several social evils, age-old traditions and practices of patriarchy, child marriage, dowry, marital rapes and physical and mental abuse. Parched is the story of four women in a desert village of Gujarat, India.
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