She wants to marry ‘ Kunwar’, who is twice her age but bumps into son of a family friend (Baba and Bua) and who is also grandmother’s choice – Taimur (a.k.a ‘Alpha Male’). She has no one to share her agony but her half-brother, Zafar (son of her father born from another woman). ‘Nameless’) to revisit Haveli at-least once, plead her clemency, and assert his love for her. Driven by the anguish she longs for her father (a.k.a. Moving a little back to the times of yore, her father abandoned Chandini and later she lost her mother also, both during her infancy and since then felt the agony of being a forsaken kid. The grandmother took care of Chandini by homeschooling her in her mother’s absence since her childhood to make her a confident and strong-headed young woman, while Chandini on the other hand, has all respect for her affluent ethnicity and etiquettes (taught to her by her grandmother, as the Haveli culture demands) but she has conflicting emotions. The story starts as we experience a sweet and salty rapport between a culturally rich grandmother – Zaitoon Beigum (a.k.a Broad) and a saucy granddaughter – Chandini. Based in 1970s in Pakistan, this narrative is from her perspective. It is about a girl ‘ Chandini’ (a.k.a C) who has a sanctified lineage. ‘ Haveli’ is a story about the heir of a Haveli of Nawabs in Pakistan.
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