A young Bangladeshi woman, Nazneem, arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Trapped within the four walls of her flat in East London, and in a loveless marriage with the middle aged Chanu, she fears her soul is quietly dying. Her sister Hasina, meanwhile, continues to live a carefree life back in Bangladesh, stumbling from one adventure to the next. Nazneen struggles to accept her lifestyle, and keeps her head down in spite of life's blows, but she soon discovers that life cannot be avoided - and is forced to confront it the day that the hotheaded young Karim comes knocking at her door.

故事背景设定在20世纪80年代和90年代的孟买，讲述了股票经纪人哈沙德·梅赫塔(Harshad Mehta)的生活，他将股市推到了令人眩晕的高度，然后又遭遇了灾难性的崩盘。

在贩毒集团统治的古拉布根杰镇，来自大城市的警察和患上相思病的机械师因为一桩史无前例的鸦片交易被卷入一场混战。

Thirty years on from the 1984 Union Carbide plant malfunction, the consequences of which are tragically ongoing, A Prayer for Rain is the powerful and moving story of the Bhopal tragedy, one of the great corporate and environmental scandals of the last half-century. It dramatises the dependence of the local community on the chemical plant that will eventually cause catastrophe, and the series of oversights that led to an event that stands as a benchmark for corporate irresponsibility in the developing world.

A loving husband and father's joyful family life is rocked to its core upon the discovery that he has a young son borne from a past extramarital affair.

1989 film by Subhash Ghai

1994 film by David Dhawan