When the government announces a ban on beef, and the shutting down of slaughterhouses, it wreaks havoc in the family life of a lower middle class, Muslim kebab seller called Bhutto, and sends his world spinning.

With vivid, meticulous imagery, Aani Maani immaculately captures the humdrum of small-town life in India. Fahim Irshad cleverly centers the narrative around a lower middle class family’s day-to-day struggles and simple joys to tell an evocative tale of identity and sectarian violence.