Back Seat

This is the story of Asawari (also known as Nikita), a small town girl who comes to Mumbai and finds herself trapped in the dance bar circuit. Nikita rises to the top of her field of work only to lose her job with the sudden ban on Mumbai dance bars. Just at the point when the bars are shut down, Nikita had almost saved enough money to fulfil her dream of starting her own Konkani restaurant and getting out of the body trade for good. In order to see her dream for freedom and independence through to fruition, Nikita must make up the remainder amount as fast as she can.

Realizing that most of her peers have resorted to prostitution, Nikita settles for the lesser evil by becoming the keep of a spoilt, rich 22 year old man, named Shashank, who is in the throes of a life threatening Heroin addiction. She makes a deal with the rich kid to be his keep every night for a month in exchange for a large sum of money, enough for her to set up her restaurant and pay a down payment for an apartment of her own.

Nikita has kept love at bay for years to try to maintain some sanity in this otherwise bizarre life in the Mumbai underbelly. Unfortunately, in the midst of this obsessive one-month deal she falls in love with Shashank’s driver (chauffer), Vijay, who is a small town guy himself and has run away from a dark past of his own in Bihar.

BACK SEAT traces their love story, through the streets of Mumbai with the impending doom of Shashank uncovering their illicit love affair.