Drowning.

Tarush is a gifted singer-songwriter in Delhi with one break-out hit behind him and a debt to KT, the charismatic label boss who fronted his career. He pays it back one humiliating gig at a time: office banquets where the crowd only cheers once he stops playing, and a kitty party — a rich women’s social club — in Gurgaon, where he plays in a peacock costume for the host, Leela, and is paid in a shoebox of yellow Jordans. At home he shares a cramped flat with his hot-headed brother Manu and Glichu, the six-year-old in their care. On a bus a new melody comes to him — and he loses it to a phone call before he can record it. That night Glichu asks him for a lullaby, and he promises to write one.

Then, backstage at a corporate gig, he pushes on the bottom of an equipment box and finds it packed with cocaine. So is every other box: all this time, KT has been using him as a drug mule. He confronts KT and is beaten to the floor. When the police close in on KT’s operation — and on the man who has been carrying its drugs — the brothers decide their only way out of Delhi is to rob Leela, whose drawers are full of jewellery.

The house was meant to be empty. Leela walks in mid-robbery, Manu panics and swings an iron rod, and the brothers end up driving a bleeding woman to hospital — where she refuses to get out. She would rather go with the men who just hit her: her husband is an arms dealer who beats her and tracks her through a bracelet on her ankle, and she has just found two getaway drivers. The jewellery turns out to be almost all fake, and Leela needs money to disappear, so she names a bigger score: a Mahjong kitty party in South Delhi with a pot of one crore rupees — over $100,000.

They rob it in rented panda and monkey costumes, with Glichu, dressed as a baby panda, carrying off the prize money. A guest opens fire and Manu takes a bullet. With Leela’s husband and his men closing in, Tarush leaves Glichu at a police station with the cash to keep him out of it — “Just… don’t become a musician” — before the car flips on the highway. Beaten and left in a ditch filling with rainwater, he finally remembers the lullaby.