Jugni once performed on stage as a nautanki dancer. Now she lives in a faraway hill village in Himachal Pradesh with her daughters Nimki, Mitthu and Chinki. She sells spices and rents out rooms to earn money. Nimki keeps the home steady, Mitthu cannot speak, and Chinki is bold and sharp-eyed.
Jugni wants her girls to avoid the stage life she struggled to leave, but their drunken father Kishanlal keeps turning up to take them back to his troupe. Then Gerulal, a man who drives a lorry, arrives as a lodger. He is surprised by their reserved ways and comes to admire how proudly they face hardship.
About Namkeen
Namkeen is a 1982 Hindi film. The music is by Rahul Dev Burman. Sanjeev Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Sharmila Tagore and Shabana Azmi appear in it. It runs 1 hour 52 minutes.
