Darlings

Badrunissa (Badru) and Hamza are very much in love and decide to get married after Hamza gets a government job as Ticket Collector in Indian Railways, but Badru's mother Shamshunissa isn't happy with her choice. Three years later, things are not good between Badru and Hamza; he has turned alcoholic and frequently beats Badru, wants her to live under his thumb, and opposes his building's development plan. Shamshunissa is very much aware of her daughter's daily abuse and wants her to return home but Badru lives in hope that someday Hamza will change. Zulfi, a common friend of Badru and Shamshunissa, complains to police about Hamza being a wife-beater, but in the police station Hamza sweet-talks Badru to retract the complaint. On their way home Hamza attacks Shamshuniss,a and Badru must choose between her mother and her husband; she chooses Hamza, forcing mother and daughter to break ties with each other. A few days later Badru realizes that she's pregnant and reunites with Shamshunissa around the same time Hamza finds from Inspector Jadhav that Zulfi had complained against him and Badru is very much aware of it. Hamza suspects an affair between them and pushes Badru downstairs and she miscarries; as she recuperates from it, she decides to hold Hamza captive in their house and torture him the same way he tortured her.