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towards the girls and their family causes Roop's father to accept an arranged marriage to Ratan, who tells him he won't allow her to sing either. After the wedding, Roop is told by Ratan that if she must sing then to sing inside closed doors, but when he finds her voice reaches outside the walls of the house, he tears her album cover. After finding her singing again, he grabs her arm in anger. A flashback scene shows Ratan's grandfather telling him as a child that those of good repute do not sing. Next door lives a four-year old girl, Paali. She has an unknown illness that has left her in a long-term semi-paralytic state. It is intimated that her care would have likely been better had she be born male. Rejected by her father, her mother holds hope. One evening, Paali's condition deteriorates and her mother rushes her to Ratan's house. Paali is left with Roop while the others run to fetch the doctor. They return to find Roop's voice has miraculously cured the girl. Ratan subsequently takes Roop to her father's home and tells the family that whatever their views, he gives his permission for Roop to sing.
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single. To the family, it was not respectful in the public eye for young women to entertain outside the family home and the result was that both their fathers strongly objected. The expectation of Roop was that she would marry the man her father chose for her and maintain a household. To their grandmother, their skills in
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heard them and dubbed them Punjab's very own nightingales. Until that single, the girls had sung around the house; whilst cooking, cleaning, and performing other household chores. During a drinks evening with friends, Roop's father promises her hand in marriage to a man who lives far away.
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