Rahul

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Starring : Jatin Grewal, Yash Pathak, Neha
Director : Prakash Jha
Producer : Prakash Jha

Rahul is the story of a young boy (Yash Pathak) of the same name whose parents have separated because of misunderstandings between them caused by the girl’s rich parents. He does all he can to bring them back together. Gladrags Manhunt model Jatin Grewal has chosen to play Rahul's dad Akash in this film. Rahul has all the ingredients for a good masala film - there is emotion, romance, action and even comic sequences between Rahul and his pet frog!!

"My mother was a wicked woman. She did not love me."

This is how little Rahul knows his mother. His father told him and he believed it. She left him and his father immediately after Rahul's birth and he never found out why. All he knew was that she was wicked enough to have left them and that she was a taboo topic at home.

Home was where Rahul and his father Akash lived, cooked, sang, exercised, fought, laughed and cried together. Theirs was a complete family, a place where two men, and Rahul was definitely a man at five, lead a life of complete harmony. Rahul could toast bread for his father, lay the table and even polish his shoes on his own. Every morning he saw his father off to work at the bus depot, for Akash ran a travel agency by himself, and then walked off to school. He had Jumbo and a nine year old Isha for friends while his drawing kept him company at other times. Isha amazed him with her "magic" and Rahul was slave to her every idea, every piece of advice Isha had in store for him. His world didn't seem to need a mother.

... And then, one sunny afternoon in church he discovers that his mother wasn't the wicked one he had imagined at all. In fact she seemed to remember him every day of those five years and still loves him. Ever since he finds this out from John, a local grocery man, Rahul has a plan to meet his mother, Meera. When he does he discovers that she did indeed love him and is overwhelmed to have him back. Yet she never wants to meet his father ever again. Reconciliation between them seems next to impossible.

Meanwhile Akash decides to marry winsome Sheela while Meera is being wooed by the gentle Naveen. A double marriage seems to be on the cards and every attempt of Rahul and Isha to thwart these inevitabilities proved unsuccessful. On Rahul's fifth birthday, his mother plans to file for custody while his father plans to get married to counter the law suit. Who will Rahul choose ?

This is the adult world of dilemmas, anger, betrayal, hurt and humiliation that Rahul has to deal with and he has no clue how. All he knows is that he loves both his parents equally and wants nothing more than having them together again. What is beyond him are adult egos that won't let the past be forgotten, let pride be shattered or let true love re-unite. Even as Rahul lies on a hospital bed fighting for his life.

A heart warming story that pits a child's innocence against adult problems and makes the most impossible love story on earth rekindle. A refreshing look at the ordinary adult world from a child's point of view, thus coloring it extraordinary hues.

A small tribute to the victory of innocence and true love.