Namkeen

Nimki Sharmila Tagore is the mortar that holds her fragile family together She looks after her younger sisters the mute sweet Meethu Shabana Azmi and spirited Chinki Kiran Vairale Together the three sisters care for their aging Amma Waheeda Rehman a troubled frail woman bordering on senile dementia Geru Sanjeev Kumar an itinerant construction hauler in the familys village for a brief contract rents a room from the family and before long bonds of friendship and even love develop between Geru and the sisters