An elderly farmer and his family return home to their village after trying to make money in the city, only to find it destitute and ruled by exploitative employers and a hungry tiger. Both the greedy employers and the tiger are protected by the government, but only the death at the hands of one will provide compensation.

Love and Shukla is the story of sex, love, and the search for privacy in the small traditional town of Kanpur. Shukla, an auto-rickshaw driver from an orthodox Brahmin family, has never intimately known a woman other than the celluloid starlets he watches every day on the 4-inch display of his mobile phone. When his mother and her newlywed daughter-in-law turn their attention to finding a bride for him, Shukla begins his journey out of the darkness of solitude.