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This is the true story of a band He started to commit crimes

leader named Lal Bihari Mritak, with the belief of declaring
who fought with government himself a living person on

systems for 18 years to get them paper. Later, he changed his

corrected in official documents. The name to Late Bharat Lal with

movie, starring Pankaj Tripathi as the help of an advocate and

Bharat Lal, expresses the various met a throng who were

locales in which the person lives as leading lives but were

a dead person. declared dead on papers in

Uttar Pradesh. Along with

In the film, Bharat Lal runs a troupe the people living as dead in
of bands that play music at official papers, they formed

functions. the organization ‘All India
Association of Dead People’.

When madmen like Bharat
To expand his business, there was Lal crossed the boundaries

a requirement for his ancestral and reached parliament and

property as collateral to earn a even shook everyone present

loan, so he went to his birthplace. there, he endured a lot from

The record keeper, Bure Singh, authority. . The person whose

came to know that Bharat Lal, son life is most impacted by her

of Kanhaiya Lal, was written as husband's endeavor is

dead on papers at his uncle’s Rukmani, the wife of Bharat
request. Uncle usurped his land to Lal, played by M. Monal

share the property with his son's Gajjar. She has expressed

children. Then his activism began malaise in the situation where

to reverse this injustice. As a citizen she has to apply for a widow's

of India, he trusted the pension while her husband is

administrative system and sent alive.

letters for hopeful change, leading

to a miserable life.

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