Shatika entails the story of a young beggar, Lali, who in wish to buy sari for her mother - mad about new saris - is forced to sleep with different men for money having find no other way to earn some quick money. Lali is successful in buying new saris for her mother but she loses herself to HIV in the process. To her misfortune, her mother throws her out of house coming to know of her disease and she is further looked down upon by her entire community. Dejected from everywhere, Lali chooses her own path of redemption.