Expelled from his school, a 16-year old boy returns home to his abusive and oppressive father.
After being abandoned for eight straight years in boarding school, Rohan returns to the small industrial town of Jamshedpur and finds himself closeted with an authoritarian father and a younger half brother who he didn't even know existed. Forced to work in his father's steel factory and study engineering against his wishes, he strives to forge his own life out of his given circumstances and pursue his dream of being a writer.—Anonymous
16-year old aspiring poet/writer, Rohan Singh gets expelled from Shimla's prestigious Bishop Cotton School, and is sent home to Jamshedpur, where his furious widowed father, Bhairav, who had not visited him for 8 years, instructs him to work at their family business until lunch-time, and then attend engineering college. He also finds out that his father had re-married, is again a widower, and has a school-going son, Arjun; and he reluctantly attempts to fit in his father's plans. Things take a turn for the worst after Rohan gets arrested, and Arjun gets hospitalized.—rAjOo ([email protected])
17-year-old Rohan is expelled from the reputed Bishop Cotton School, Shimla boarding school along with three friends Vikram, Benoy and Maninder when they are caught by their warden watching an adult movie off campus.
Rohan returns home to Jamshedpur to a stern and abusive father and a 6-year-old half-brother, Arjun (who didn't even know that Rohan existed), not knowing what's in store for him. His father forces him to jog every morning and race him at the last leg. Rohan then must work at his father's metal works factory and attend engineering classes at the local university immediately afterwards. His father's disappointment takes the form of verbal and physical abuse and constant humiliation. His kind uncle supports Rohan's ambition of being a writer, but his father will have none of it. One night he sneaks out of the house, takes his father's car and goes to a local bar. There he meets some seniors from his college who try to rag him but later become his friends. This becomes a regular habit, taking his father's car and drinking at the bar.
An uninterested Rohan deliberately fails the exam so that his father will give up on him, leaving him free to pursue his dream of becoming a writer. At exactly the same time, his father is summoned immediately to school to take Arjun away because of something he has done. This causes his father to lose an important contract. Rohan comes home to a scene where Arjun is being rushed to the hospital for some unknown reason. His father says that Arjun fell down the stairs. Fearful of complicating matters, Rohan lies to his father and says that he passed his exams. His father then goes to Calcutta on an urgent business trip leaving Rohan to take care of Arjun in the hospital.
In the hospital, Rohan impresses a lot of people including doctors and nurses with his stories and poems. He finds out that Arjun was beaten by his father after losing a contract worth millions of rupees. While he befriends Arjun, he gets to know that Arjun had a fight with his schoolmate and had hurt a couple of them. Then his father comes back from Calcutta and finds out he has failed the exams. He has a fight with his father and is assaulted by him in the night and next day his father apologies to him.
A somewhat hopeful Rohan feels that maybe his father has realized the error of his ways. His father then stuns Rohan by declaring that he is going to marry again and decides to send Arjun to a boarding school while Rohan is supposed to work full-time at the factory. His father has a fight with his uncle and calls him a 'loser' when his uncle desires to keep Arjun with him. Rohan pleads with his uncle to take him away. Furious about this, his father burns Rohan's diary where he has written all his poems. Sometime later, Rohan's father introduces his new wife and stepdaughter to Rohan.
When Rohan turns 18, his father gives his watch, originally belonging to Rohan's great-grandfather, to Rohan. He tells Rohan that he should continue the tradition. Rohan calls his friend, Maninder, who tells him that Vikram owns his (now retired) uncle's restaurant in Mumbai after successfully running it for a month and that the three of them work there happily. Maninder invites Rohan to join them.
One day, Rohan takes all his frustration out on his father's car by a river, but some policemen happen to see him in the act. He spends a night in prison after his father knows about the car and leaves him there. When he goes home, his to-be stepmother and her relatives are there. He takes a bath, packs his things to leave home. Rohan learns from Arjun that he would be leaving for boarding school the next day. Rohan simply wishes him luck and prepares to leave.
On his way out, Rohan exchanges some words with his father, causing his to-be stepmother to realize what his father's real nature is (saying that now there will be someone to share the beating his father gives Arjun), and when confronted, punches his father and runs away. He chases Rohan but cannot catch up to him. Rohan realizes that he has finally beaten his father in a running race and is now free. Rohan spends the night at his uncle's house.
The next morning, he suddenly realizes that he cannot leave his brother at the mercy of the same circumstances that he left. He goes to his father's house and finds Arjun waiting outside, meanwhile his father has gone to get a taxi to take him to boarding school.Rohan convinces Arjun to go with him to Mumbai leaving the watch and note behind explaining his decision and warning him not to look for them. The movie ends with Rohan and Arjun walking away holding hands; their future free to explore possibilities.
