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The couple struggle to live within the bounds of their own moral code while the earnings of prostitution seem to be flaunted around them. Hamid gets more and more angry and seemingly unable to reconcile his morality with the immorality of the world and at one point beats his wife and then rapes her making her into a \u0027whore\u0027 of his fantasy. The story here bears resemblance to the later \u0027Ek Chadar Maili Si\u0027 by the same director and seems to explore the complex world of women and sexuality as viewed by Indian men: mother, goddess, whore. 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