Talaash (The Mirage) is a new, hard hitting, contemporary drama in Hindi, exploring the trade where marriage is a business and relationships can be bought or sold. Talaash tells the story of Aziz, a young man from Pakistan who arrives in London in the hope of a better life. Javed, another family relation who lives with his partner Anu, takes him under his wing and helps him find a job in a restaurant.

Aziz has big dreams but in order to make them come true, needs legal status to live in the UK. Anu advises him to undertake a marriage of convenience for a pecuniary settlement and even finds him a willing candidate in the shape of Sharda, an older single woman. However, she has her own motivations for keeping the young man close and sets out to exploit Aziz through her sexuality and scheming.

Starring Hina Baxi, Krishan Tandon, Anil Devani, Sandeep Garcha, Aziz Zulifiqar and Deepa Shah, Talaash exposes the shady deals that go on, the exploitation of the institution of marriage and the morally decrepit behaviour of human beings caused by the lust for money. Yet at the end of it there is goodness hidden in each soul that manages to overpower the evils of the mind. Does everyone get what they strive for or is it all just a Mirage?

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