Producer: Pammi Baweja
Director: Harry Baweja
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Sushmita Sen, Esha Deol
Music: Himesh Reshammiya

Harry Baweja and Ajay Devgan have made quite a few films together, the last being Qayamat. For the first time, Ajay Devgan will be seen playing the role of a young brain. Whether this will click among the audience or not remains to be seen. Read on to check out what the movie is all about....

Main Aisa Hi Hoon is a story about Indraneel Thakur, or Neel (Ajay Devgan) as he's fondly known by the townspeople is a grown-up man with the brain of a seven-year-old child. Heart-breakingly innocent, kind and with a generosity of spirit that few can rival, Neel is the darling of the small town he lives in. Life, for him, is a fable and the world a fairy-tale setting where no wrong or no evil can ever penetrate. The nucleus of his world is his seven-year-old daughter, Gungun, whom he loves beyond explanation. Friends, the owner of the books and coffee shop he works in and his landlady form the rest of his world.

Gungun's mother, Maya Trivedi (Esha Deol) had entered Neel's life like a mysterious breeze and left just as inexplicably, after giving birth to the child. And for the seven years after that, Neel and Gungun just had each other to live for. Their world was happy, albeit not picture-perfect. But none of their troubles were so large that they couldn't be surmounted by Neel's simple and fabulously sensible approach.

In this idyllic world, on the eve of Gungun's seventh birthday entered a storm - in the form of Maya's father - Dayanath Trivedi (Anupam Kher). The old man who's just learned about the presence of Gungun had flown down from London to claim his granddaughter. The first meeting between Neel and Trivedi doesn't go too well, and Trivedi slaps a lawsuit on Neel - for custody of the little child.

Neel can feel his world shattering around him and his decision to search for the best lawyer in town lands him at the office of Neeti Khanna (Sushmita Sen). Recently divorced, embittered, terribly ambitious, with a son whom she inadvertently de-priorities to the point of neglect, Neeti is a far cry from the role model for Neel's case. At first terribly resistant to take up Neel's case, she finally is broken down by Neel's sincerity and his unflinching love for his little daughter. To her great surprise, Neeti finds herself learning many lessons from Neel, and decides to take up his case.

Fighting a powerful NRI with all the clout and money and the consequent power wasn't the only stumble in Neeti's path. Trivedi had the advantage of being in the right - Neel was a mentally handicapped person with the ominous responsibility of bringing up a little girl. While Trivedi had every material arsenal that would help him bring up the child - including wealth and a sharp intellectual mind - as against Neel's seven-year-old brain. The courtroom battle to convince the judge otherwise forms the crux of the story.

Apart from its moot message - love is all you need - the film deals with several other issues. Maya's drifting, confused and lost state of mind - constantly seeking love and acceptance is a mirror of a large section of the youth, deprived of parental attention. Neeti's hardened exterior, her disillusionment with life as a single mother and her inability to give any attention to her child who suffers due to her single-minded ambition finds its reflection in many urban lives... And in Trivedi, one can see the quintessential success story - at the cost of his estranged daughter.

Viewing the complex world with the simplicity of Neel's mind, this is a beautiful tale of a father and daughter - and all the lives they touch. This is a story about love.

Stills - Main Aisa Hi Hoon

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