The songs articulate his peculiar experience of the city, giving him a language for his nostalgia and his desires. This telling moment explains what this music means to the migrant. He says that unlike Hindi, Bhojpuri has different words for different aches. In a poignant moment, a singer explains why Bhojpuri remains unmatched in expressing what the migrant feels. An MP organizes a Chhath celebration trying to woo them, amidst the threat of a xenophobic Marathi nationalism. The Chhath puja celebrations, for instance, are contested. These anxieties make an appearance now and then in the film, though always indirectly. This seems out of place, but is actually a reminder of the context within which the migrant lives- his anxieties and struggles in an increasingly hostile city. In response, some men take the stage, and say- 'don't think Mumbai is not ours'. In one of the sequences, during a local music programme, stones are thrown at the stage. The migrant is constantly moved out from the centre more and more towards the suburbs, and yet builds home again and again. The struggles of the local Bhojpuri music industry, as their studios often face demolition, is reflective of the precarious migrant experience itself. Ramanuj Pathak, nicknamed 'chingari' by his audience, cites the example of a similar song which he sings very rarely only because it makes the audience so lonely they want to run back home. Why did you marry me if you had to leave, goes one song. This is a part of tradition, she says, but unfortunately is now being seen as 'obscene'.ДЄs much as there are raunchy numbers, there is also guilt in this male imagination at having left behind a wife back home. Kalpana, the established Bhojpuri singer, delights in the 'double meaning' of the Bhojpuri song. She is also imagined as wanting to be modern- 'Get me jeans to wear, I don't like the sari' one song says. In the migrant's imagination, male singers imagine what the woman would say as she pines for him she is naughty, she is direct in demanding affection. Most of the Bhojpuri songs that we hear as the film progresses, deal with this absence.

The film begins with an anecdote - the migrant's wife might have access to him through the mobile phone, but shy as she is, when she calls on his number, she doesn't know what to say.

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