Atul Tiwari

A romantic musical, Rajjo is the journey of a nautch girl in the most extraordinary circumstances. It tells the love story of Rajjo (Kangana Ranaut) and Chandu (Paras Arora) set against the backdrop of the dying Kothas of Mumbai that nurtured the traditional art of singing and dancing for centuries. The story`s central characters are Rajjo, a Muslim girl and Chandu, a young Brahmin boy. When Chandu helps his team win a cricket match, the team decides to celebrate the victory by visiting the Kothas of Nagpada. This is where Chandu meets Rajjo who mesmerizes him with her elegant Mujra dance and it is love at first sight for him. Chandu belongs to a family of music lovers; he is a very good harmonium player, his mother is a Bhajan singer. Rajjo is trained under Kothewali Amma; she is naughty, sweet and quite attractive. Music is the common thread between them, as is the strong attraction that draws Rajjo and Chandu together and seals their love. Simultaneously the Nagpada area goes under the clutches of re-development and all the dancers and singers are under the shadow of this potential danger. Amidst these circumstances, Rajjo and Chandu have to deal with Begum (Mahesh Manjrekar) who runs the Kotha and Hande Bhau (Prakash Raj), a corporator with powerful political connections who has his eye set on Rajjo. With everything working against them, will Rajjo and Chandus love be able to triumph against all odds?

Vishwanath alias Wiz, a Kathak exponent, and Nirupama, get married. Each have an agenda and seem to have achieved their wishes within three years of matrimony. Nirupama gets her Ph.D and Wiz runs his dance class in New Jersey, unhindered by each other. All is fine till Dr. Nirupama aspires for more and wants to opt out of the arranged marriage. She cannot cite any specific reason to leave Wiz as there is nothing to complain about. Every male according to Nirupama must have a flaw. So she decides to find out something about him to feel better about her decision to part. Nirupama then hires a detective to rake up something on him, wires get cross-connected and before we know it hell breaks loose.

With effortless candor and courage, the 5 ladies of Whats the T display their day to day lives. They exhibit the hard work one must possess in order to achieve success as defined by them. All these women have gone through similar experiences and all have risen above these trials to gain what is rightfully theirs in their own fields. While the battle is a long and arduous one, these women have proven and are still proving that they will end up on top. The documentary features Cassandra Cass who is a performer at the Starlight Room in San Francisco, Rakash Armani an up and coming star in the ballroom scene, Nya an ingénue from AsiaSF, Vi Le is a biology and psychology major in SFSU working towards her medical degree, and Mia TuMutch who is a youth advocate for the San Francisco Youth Commission.