- A bank employee weighed down by her jobless husband's debts - and her own broken dreams - finds a secret source of seemingly unlimited cash in her home.
- Sarita Pillai works as a clerk in government based bank and lives with son Sameer and husband Sushant who switches jobs every six months.Sarita's flat faces drainage issues in kitchen basin but Sushant doesn't bother to fix it or call the plumber.Once late night Sarita sees water flushing underneath her basin wherein some zip lock plastic bags pop out which has bundle of 1000 rupee currency notes the very first thing she does is verify the notes from her bank weather it's real.Sarita is confirmed about the notes being real and does it as daily process of gathering bundles from drainage but hides from Sushant soon her lifestyle changes making people question even her character.But October 2016 Indian Prime Minister announces demonetization to ban 500 and 1000 currency notes.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com
- Sarita Pillai (Saiyami Kher) and Sushant Pillai (Roshan Mathew) are a married couple that live in a lower-middle-class neighborhood of Mumbai, trying to make ends meet with their young son Sameer (Parthveer Shukla). While the movie shows the daily struggles of a lower-middle-class family in Mumbai with all its up and downs, a flashback shows that Sarita and Sushant have a musical background and during a reality singing show, Sarita freezes onstage when the lights reveal a large audience. This past experience chokes her frequently, bringing stress and anxiety.
Sarita feels Sushant is constantly mocking her for her one failure and is punishing her to this day. Sarita is now the breadwinner of the family, working as a bank teller while Sushant remains frequently unemployed or engages in small schemes to make money with his neighbors. Even his friend Dinesh (Uday Nene) makes fun of Sushant for being a house husband and this riles Sushant. Sushant and Dinesh were in business together selling insurance policies, but Dinesh picks up all the commission checks from the bank, and defrauds Sushant.
The burden on Sarita to work long hours at the bank with full responsibility at home causes frequent fights and issues between them. In midst of this, viewers learn that an unknown man brings a heavy suitcase in the same building as the Pillai's & who rolls up large cash bundles in a Ziploc bag and stuffs it in the bathroom drain. This hidden location is meant to imply hiding of black-money, which is learned to be the cause of choking the water sewage pipe, often causing unusual noises in Pillai's kitchen sink. The society ladies discuss that the unknown man is a PA to a politician.
One night, Sarita wakes up to drink water and she hears loud noises in the same pipe. She goes to check and starts to open and clean up the dirty water. To her surprise, she finds those hidden stuffed bags containing cash. She is astounded and after verifying the validity of the cash at her bank, she uses that cash to pay off Sushant's debt and indulge in buying high-end items for her home. Upon Sushant's inquiry, she responds that she has extra cash from her mother's fixed deposit.
Amidst this, episodes of the struggles of her neighbors and continued acrimony between them is shown. In particular, she shares a friendly yet stressful relationship with her neighbor downstairs, whom she adoringly calls Sharvari Tai (Amruta Subhash). Tai complains about the seepage from Sarita's home wetting her own walls and destroying her paintwork. With nightly rituals of waking up and cleaning her kitchen pipeline, she continues to benefit from the new source of endless cash and uses it to indulge herself. However, all this free money ends abruptly, when she learns that Prime Minister Modi has introduced demonetization with banning notes of Rs. 500 and 1000. She and her neighbor Tai are distraught as Tai is preparing for her daughter's wedding and Sarita finds her free money ending, putting her back in the same struggle filled life that seemed to resolve with new money.
Sarita's life becomes even worse than before with angry customers, long hours and stress at the bank from the demonetization. Meanwhile, Sushant suspects that Sarita is having an extra-marital affair after being shown a video (taken by a random aunt from the society, who saw Sarita entering a hotel with Reddy) from Sarita's encounter with Reddy (Upendra Limaye), a man from whom Sushant has borrowed money that Sarita had previously paid off from the "choked" money.
But now, with demonetization, everyone wants Sarita to help them exchange their old notes for new ones. This includes REddy (who is running a business to exchange old notes for new for a 40% cut), as well as Sharvari who had loads of old currency notes to pay for her daughter's upcoming wedding. Sharvari resorts to emotionally blackmailing Sarita in order to get her notes exchanged. she has Rs 80,000 in cash which is wants Sarita to exchange at the bank. Reddy forces Sarita to help him in his currency business and deposits huge amounts of money in her accounts in cash.
Sarita goes to check the kitchen pipe and finds new currency notes of Rs. 2000 denomination, exciting her that despite cash restrictions imposed by the national government, she continues to get this "choked money" and uses it. Sarita goes to great lengths to hide this secret, even from Sushant by frequently locking up her kitchen and preventing unwanted guests (Sharvari's wedding guests who stay at Sarita's house) from even sleeping in the kitchen. Sushant feels Sarita is sleeping with Reddy for the cash. But he finds that Reddy is harassing Sarita for his debt. So, he confronts Reddy, pays his debt and warns him to stay away from Sarita.
Unfortunately for Sarita - her cash gathering comes to an abrupt end when thieves hold bank employees at gunpoint and steal all the money, including the cash that Sarita kept with her in her purse. She returns home saddened and dismayed that she loses at the most important moments in her life - during the reality singing show and now with this cash that gave her hope. Despite reassurance from Sushant, she hides the new money information and remains home. Unknown to her, the police are engaging in a criminal investigation into large sums of Rs. 2000 denomination notes haven been given to a local politician who extracted that from a corrupt bank officer in a different city.
When questioned by the police, Sarita is dumbfounded, as she feels that her mere use of the "choked money" will now lead to an unnecessary criminal act against her as police inquire about the large sums of money that she had kept with her. The police want to know how Sarita was in possession of bank notes that were issued in a different branch. However, Sushant intervenes and tells the police about the zip-lock bagged money. During this revelation, the Pillai's neighbor deduce that the large bags being brought in their building were indeed by an assistant of the local politician that were actually newly minted money. They run up and take large sums of cash with them and return to their homes uncaught. After the police encounter the large bags of cash in the house of the assistant, then get Sushant's details.
One year later - upon returning from a trip, the Pillai's happily learn that they have been asked to come and collect 10% of the cash that the police encountered during their raid. Upon asking how much money that would be - the movie ends.
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