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A kidult love story that puts the spotlight on teenage pregnancy

Cast: Ruslaan Mumtaz, Sheena Shahabadi, Satish Kaushik, Sushmita Mukherjee, Rajat Kapoor, Neena Gupta, Anupam Kher

Director: Satish Kaushik

Producer: Bharat Shah

Release Date: August 7, 2009

Characters:

Sheena Shahabadi as Maahi
The only child of Puri family is a sweet and bubbly 15-year-old Delhi girl. Belonging to a prosperous family, she's always had the best of material comforts and education.

Ruslaan Mumtaz as Kabir
A boy like all teenage boys are: aspiring, arrogantly negligent, clueless and rebellious, unreasonably demanding, loving yet not romantic, suppressed yet self- assured. Coming from a family that's at the lower end of the society yet beautifully bonded. Studying in a government school and living in Chandni Chowk, his extremely busy life revolves around cutting glasses, watching films, playing football and catching a glimpse of Maahi everyday outside her school.

Rajat Kapoor and Neena Gupta as Maahi's Parents
Maahi's father is a reputed criminal lawyer. His profession demands him to be constantly travelling with his wife (Neena Gupta), leaving them with little time for their beloved child. Having very few friends at school and the one's she has being snobs; the only affection the girl gets is from the servants of the house.

Satish Kaushik and Sushmita Mukherjee as Kabir's Parents
Son to a happy go lucky father (Satish Kaushik) who drives an auto rickshaw and a loving mother (Sushmita Mukherjee) who, in her free time tutors neighbourhood kids in English, the family makes their ends meet.

Synopsis

Maahi, (Sheena) the only child of the Puri family is a sweet and bubbly 15-year-old Delhi girl. She belongs to a prosperous family and has the best of material comforts and education. While Kabir is a 17-year-old typical teenager.

Like most youngsters Maahi and Kabir become friends. While Maahi loves the small town lifestyle of Kabir's family, Kabir finds the urban, up market life style that Maahi is living, exciting.

As the relationship grows, so does the intimacy. On a camping trip on New Year's Eve, after getting a little tipsy - the young couple in all their innocence give in to their hormonal drive and Maahi gets pregnant.

What follows is a journey of accepting one's mistakes and owning up to it. A tale of courage & determination. It's a cry for help by those numerous Kidult couples that have and are facing such a dilemma in their lives at this very moment. It's an attempt to bring to light an issue... teenage pregnancy, which is growing exponentially in the current Indian society - modern and rural.


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to admire this movie
by Sweta Kumar, delhi, INDIA


it will be a nice movie it brings a message to all the teenagers. Hope this movie doesn't affect anyone.
posted 5 August 2009, 03:16 PM UAE time.
tere sang, hindi movie
by harvinder rajpal, fort lauderdale, u.s.a.


the subject is very important in this age and specially for india where urban kids are unaware of the consequences of early sex and not aware of any kind of protected sex...hopefully the movie brings the right knowledge and teaches some good lessons to the teenagers.............
posted 3 August 2009, 03:22 AM UAE time.

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