In a little village in pre-Independence Gujarat, Lali grows up amidst a loving family, neighbours, and friends, their daily lives marked by devotion to the village deity, weddings and festivals, and occasionally punctuated by the visits of a Bahuroopi, a street performer skilled in the art of disguise.
When Lali gets married and moves to Bombay, she finds herself up against her formidable mother-in-law, Jamna, who is still steeped in the social mo