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When Ram is a very little boy, he is leaved in front of a catholic church. A priest called Father

Timothy is taking good care of Ram gives him a good upbringing. He is baptized, Ram Mohammed

Thomas. He also learns to speak English.

One day, Father Timothy is killed by another priest and Ram ends up in a Juvenile home.

All the children’s at the juvenile is either a cripple or have had their limbs or eyes injured.

At the juvenile home Ram meets Salim who also have lost his parents. They achieve song lessons at

the home. They sooner find out that the reason is that “the big man” wants to make them blind –

like the blind singer Sudas.

They decide to run away from the juvenile home into the big smokes of Mumbai. They look for a

singer called Neelima Kumari who Ram was told of. Neelima Kumari employs Ram as her

housekeeper.

Neelima Kumari is often beaten by her boyfriend and one day the pressure is too big for her and she

commits suicide.

Salim and Ram still lives in the chawl. A family lives next to them and the father of the family is an