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is a 2018 film directed by and produced by Ravi Jadhav and Zee Studio. The movie was released on 27 April 2018. The film tells the story of a model who poses nude to earn money for her son’s education.
Yamuna belongs to a very poor family. She lives with her teenage son Lakshman and husband who has an open illicit relationship and spends her earnings and jewellery on the other woman. After being publicly humiliated by her husband, Yamuna leaves her village and arrives in Mumbai to stay with her aunt, Akke who is equally poor and lives with her husband in a single room. Her aunt supports her and they start leading a normal life. Yamuna spends most of the day looking for a job because she doesn’t want to be a burden on her aunt. Frustrated one day she tries to find what job Akkey does. She follows her to and finds out that she is a nude model for the students of the arts college.
After a minor tiff on the nature of the job, Akke reveals to Yamuna that she has been doing this for past 15 to 20 years and it is a noble work of education. After some thought, she asks Yamuna if she would like to do the job. After initial hesitation, Yamuna agrees and they go to the college. Yamuna starts with her job as a nude model and earns a decent amount of money. She also does housekeeping jobs to earn extra income. There is only one student who seems to care about her while the rest of them are oblivious to her presence.
Life continues, and Lakshman constantly demands money for his education. Yamuna takes up private assignments reluctantly to fulfill is demands. However, one student from the college always accompanies her because she is not comfortable posing nude outside the secure premises of the college. One day, renowned artist arrives in Mumbai and she is requested to pose nude for him. After a few days there is violent protest regarding this nude painting and protesters attack the college and destroy the nude paintings. All are scared but it is Yamuna who is the first one to resume work.
Later, Akke suffers joint pains and is unable to continue with her work. One day when Lakshman arrives home, he accuses Yamuna of prostitution. He also tells her that he would not be continuing his education anymore because he is fed up of this life of poverty & wants to go to the . Yamuna is deeply shattered and feels that one day she would suffer the same fate of Akke and die in pain, agony and poverty. With no more motivation to live, she commits suicide. Lakshman soon learns of an exhibition of nude paintings in the same college. Out of lust, he decides to visit the exhibition. When he sees a nude painting of his mother he attacks the artist.


















