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Mr. Ahuja Minister for Urban Development is beset by problems thirteen children and another on the way not the mention the daily struggles over whether to resign for the sixty third time his wife Sangita adrift on a sea for knitting and nappies is mourning to loss of the favourite TV soap star son Rishi drives everyone mad with his serial apologies and finally theres Arjun the oldest and perhaps the wisest of the sprawling noisy crew. For once though Arjun is confounded how to tell the girl on the school bus that hes crazy about her? Serenading het with cover versions of Bryan Adams greatest hits perhaps isnt the answer. And Arjuns father must not only confront the roots of his strange and disturbing marriage but so do in the troubled landscape of modern day New Delhi that he himself has built. Following father and son as they blunder their way over and under the flyovers of the megalopolis Karan Mahajan brilliantly juggles the cultural and political worlds of Indias capital city to create a moving and fast moving portrait of modern family life. «
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