Sanjay Leela Bhansali departs from his usual style of colorful, song-filled dramas in his forthcoming film 'Black', which is a songless movie about a blind-deaf girl and an ageing man.
The film tells the story of Michelle McNally (Rani Mukherjee), a girl who becomes deaf and blind after an illness at the age of eighteen months. Born to an Anglo-Indian family, Michelle is a bright, intelligent girl whose world is dark, black and silent. She cannot communicate with the outer world. Nor can she comprehend the forms and shapes of things. As time passes on, Michelle's handicap makes her personality involuted and self-destructive.
But then comes into Michelle's dark world the 48-year-old Debraj Sahai (Amitabh Bachchan), an eccentric alcoholic, who is consumed by his passion of teaching the deaf and blind. Debraj loses his job because of his drinking habit and then is sent by the school principal to teach the eight-year-old Michelle.
Debraj's first encounters with Michelle are far from pleasant. But soon he realizes the immense potential the girl carries and decides to use entirely new methods to teach her. He teaches her the language of touch and smell so that she begins to learn about the things and creatures in the world she cannot see.
It is Debraj's dream to see Michelle leading a normal life one day. But his debilitating health and his Alzheimer's attacks make him bedridden.
Now it is Michelle who decides to take Debraj under her care. But will she be able to resuscitate the aged Debraj from his weak condition? Will she be able to fulfill his dream of leading a normal life?
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