Shanti stands up. She takes the broken piece of the old TV screen (the crack Ankit made) and holds it like a mirror.
After a bitter family partition, a retired school teacher, Shanti Devi, is left alone with nothing but a broken TV. When she wins a lottery, her greedy children return to claim her, forcing her to stage a fake "illness" to teach them the true meaning of "Apna" (one's own). Act 1: The Empty Nest Shanti Devi (68) lives in a crumbling old house in Pushkar. Her husband passed away five years ago. She has three children: Rohit (the eldest, a businessman in Mumbai), Priya (the middle child, married and settled in Canada), and Ankit (the youngest, a jobless man living in Jaipur who blames his mother for his failures). apne tv to
Within 24 hours, the news leaked via the local cable operator. Shanti stands up
Shanti looks at the screen, then at her children, and whispers to her late husband's photo: "See? Finally, this is 'Apne TV' – Our own people, watching our own stories, in our own home." When she wins a lottery, her greedy children
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"I have decided," she announces, "to donate the entire lottery money to the orphanage in Ajmer."
"If you are watching this, I have won the lottery. But the money is a lie. There is no lottery. I sold my gold bangles to the cable operator to send this fake news. I wanted to see if you would remember I am your 'apne' (your own). You failed. But then... you came back."