The movie is about today's urban aspirations as represented by a young couple living in Bombay.
Ravi is a wage earner who works in the field of plastics - a kind of
metaphor that runs through the film. His wife gives up her early
promise as a classical dancer in order to settle into marriage, which
is threatened when their only son turns out to be autistic. He is a
retarded teenager with a flair for painting.
Ravi and Padmini share a strained relation ship due to their teenage
son's Buddhi's intellectual handicap.Buddhi, a mildly autistic slow
learner displays his flair for art but his parents dont encourage or
recognise because of their middle class in securities.
Driven by Padmini's social insecurities and Ravi's guilt for
dropping Buddhi as a baby, the parents chase an unreal dream of seeing
their normal good student who like others must become an engineer or
doctor.
While Dr Sen the neurolgist tries hard to make Padmini accept the
hard fact, Ravi comes across Dr sathya, a scientist who tells Ravi
about his experimental Brain Booster that can make Budhhi a genius. But
the drug has a side effect and that is Amnesia. But Ravi considers it
to be a blessing as Buddhi doesn't have any such good memories to talk
about.
Although initially Ravi hesitates to inject the drug but one night
he is provoked by Padmini to inject Budhhi with the brain
booster.Although the immediate reaction after the injection seemed as
if Budhhi was going to die but slowly he recovered and emerges as a new
born son. He becomes smarter , brighter but confused with this
transformation.
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