MUMBAI: Vinay Shukla, who made his earlier film inspired by the life of Santokben Jadeja, the lady who headed an underworld enterprise in areas of Porbander, is ready with another hard-hitting story of a man-woman relationship in his upcoming Mirch due for release on 10 December.

Mirch is structured like a square with a cross-section of four squares within it. Each square represents one season, has a different colour palette and contains a story complete in itself with a witty twist in the end. The stories run the course of time; from ancient India to today‘s India. 

The first story has been sourced from the ancient Sanskrit classic, the Panchtantra; the source of the second story is the 14th century Italian classic, the ‘Decameron,‘ by Boccaccio. Inspiration for the third story comes from another ancient Italian story. The rest of the stories are penned by Shukla.

Says Shukla, "One character in the film says, ‘my grandmother used to say that when the mind is in a dilemma, one should listen to stories: stories are a treasure trove of wisdom.‘ Another character, at another point, declares that stories are magic. I believe that a civilization dies when it stops telling stories."

Mirch stars Konkona Sen Sharma, Raima Sen, Boman Irani, Shreyas Talpade, Rajpal Yadav and Shahana Goswami among others.