Maanav is a struggling filmmaker who is unwilling to compromise on the script he has written. His girlfriend Ruchi a successful film editor arranges for him to meet Nitin a film producer. Nitin likes the script but is not very sure of its commercial prospects. Maanav then suggests a story from the Panchtantra: A woman is caught red-handed with her lover by her husband and yet she manages to wriggle out of it scot-free! Nitin loves the story but finds it too short for a feature film. Maanav then creates three more stories based on the same premise: in a way the Panchantra story travels in different versions to the modern times through the film. The four stories are woven together by a common story. Mirch itself echoes this structure with four stories mingling with the main narrative.