In today's rapidly changing society how do you teach the youth about traditions and values of life?
Everything was perfect in Rahul's (Abhishek Bachchan) life. He was the only son of his parent's (Navni Parihar, Romesh Sharma). They were rich and never said no to him...or he made sure they didn't.
Rahul was a happy boy, eagerly awaiting his first trip alone to the U S of A. when the tragedy struck. He found himself in the midst of people who decided to make a 'better human being' out of him. The players of the conspiracy-a culture junkie DCP Bhosle, (Om Puri), who pinned every problem on the advent of foreign television in India, a judge K. R. P. Murthy, (Anjan Shriwastav), who secretly desired recognition for his long service without a single holiday and a cub reporter Neha Sengupta, (Hrishitaa Bhatt), who aspired to bring about the change in the entire judiciary system! But that was not all, his own loving parents agreed that Rahul needed to change.
Nothing in his life had prepared Rahul for what was going to happen to him when he landed in an old age home, Ashiyana. But that wasn't all. Rahul was forced to share a room with a 'crazy' old man, Prajapati, (Amrish Puri) whose idea of a good time was going for a morning walk or listening to Jaymala on radio at night? Honestly, what do you do when all you have for fun is pending office accounts and overdue shopping lists?
There were of course others, Mr. & Mrs. Gujral, (Dara Singh, Daisy Irani) who never agreed on anything, a sister and her sixty year old kid brother, (Shubha Khote, Viju Khote), who needed constant supervision, an avid reader Saiffuddin (Tinnu Anand) whose forgetfulness was the stuff legends are made off. Add to that Gajanan Desai (A. K. Hangal) who spend long hours writing letters to his son and daughter-in-law (Raj Zuthshi, Irawati Harshe) and Kailash Oza (Pratap Oza), the eldest resident. There was also Anuradha Mathur (Helen) whose son, (Yatin Karyekar) promised to return after a month to fetch her back- a promise she knew he did not intend to keep. Prajapati ruled Ashiyana with an iron hand. No one ever contradicted him except Subramaniyum, (K D Chandran) a 'respectable family man' in his own words.
Rahul found himself amidst these 'boring' old people and yes the journalist Neha...but then she was worst the worst of all.
And yes to add to the chaos, there was the caretaker Vikram Saxena (Mohnish Behl) of late Mr. S B Pandit on whose property Ashiyaana is situated and a powerful builder Arora (Ashish Vidyarthi), who had plans of their own.
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