A story that must be told
A struggling local journalist begins a dogged investigation into harrowing cases of abuse being covered up at a shelter for young girls.
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Bhumi Pednekar Sanjay Mishra Aditya Srivastava Sai Tamhankar Surya Sharma Chittaranjan Tripathy Durgesh Kumar Satyakam Anand Tanisha Mehta Vibha Chibber Pravin Kumar Sisodia Murari Kumar Samta Sudiksha Gulista Alija Shakti Kumar Danish Iqbal Pubali Sanyal Farheen Khan Aditya Uppal Brij Bhushan Shukla Prabhat Lehri Shammi Jaffery Anand Sharma Anuj Mishra Ekram Khan Umesh Shukla Mahesh Chandra Deva Amit Sinha Ronak Pandey Punita Awasthi Ankita Singh Shiv Mohan Dinesh Trivedi Sunil Kanal Ajay Singh Priti Shukla
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