Not Only Mrs. Raut (2003)
Director: Gajendra Ahire; Writer: Gajendra Ahire; Producer: Aditi Deshpande; Cinematographer: Imtiaz Bargir; Editor: Gajendra Ahire, Shivaji Choudhury, Mahesh Pavaskar; Cast: Tushar Dalvi, Aditi Deshpande, Vikram Gokhale, Kaushal Inamdar, Mohan Joshi, Ketaki Karadekar, Ravindra Mankani, Milind Shah, Madhura Velankar, Vandana Gupte, Vidya Mulgund, Prasad Kamath
Summary: A homeless bedraggled woman, wandering around the Juhu Beach area of Bombay, clutching a bag, shuffles over to a small restaurant and orders some food. She eats like she has been starving and hasn't eaten for days. When she finishes her meal, she gets up to leave, only to be stopped by the waiter, who asks her to pay her bill. She says she has no money, and the waiter severely beats and kicks her and only stops after she starts screaming loudly in pain. The next day, she goes to the Juhu Police Station, gives a statement that she has killed a man near the beach area with a dagger, the evidence being a bloodied dagger from her bag and places it before the Police Inspector. She is asked to make a statement and held in a cell. Her name is Vidya Raut and she has killed her former employer, Raghuvir Karkhanis. Advocate Swati A. Dandavate decides to defend her, not realizing that the Public Prosecutor in this case is none other than her husband, Aditya Vishnu Dandavate, the brother of the influential Dada Dandavate, who are dead set against a woman in their household attempting to defend a homeless woman who has already confessed to the police. Swati, nevertheless decides to go ahead with this uphill task knowing fully well that her relationship with her husband and her brother-in-law will never be the same again.
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