In recent years, Siddharth has chosen projects with deep emotional resonance and social weight.
What follows is not a high-octane rescue mission. Instead, Mehta gives us a slow-burn odyssey. Mehendi, armed with a photograph and a fading hope, crisscrosses the subcontinent, navigating indifferent bureaucrats, corrupt police officers, and an underworld of child labor. His wife (played by Tannishtha Chatterjee) waits at home, her silence more powerful than any scream. siddharth movie
The story follows Mehendi (played with devastating restraint by the late, great actor Rajesh Tailang), a poor chain-wallah (chain repairman) living in a bustling North Indian slum. He makes a practical, if agonizing, decision: to send his 12-year-old son, Siddharth, alone on a train from their home in Delhi to a town in Punjab to work at a zipper factory. The goal is survival—extra income to keep the family afloat. In recent years, Siddharth has chosen projects with