Retrospectively referring to an incident, protagonist Rajesh Bauji (played by Sanjay Mishra) dreams of flying in the air, like a bird. Going through the skies with an inexplicable pleasure is a reality to him, and nothing is superfluous about this.
The incidence of confronting and thrashing her daughter’s boyfriend Ajju (played by Namit Das), jolts him from his slumber of believing in what others have been saying. “We have been filled with lies of others,” he regrets, and pledges to trust only what he sees or hears. His only reply to generally accepted realities and truths is … may be. The impressions imparted by the acquaintances, made him realise that the assertions are disseminated on unfounded perceptions. Through this event of confrontation with Ajju, he concludes, “One is your truth, and the other is mine.” From this onwards, he is a man in search of his truth – not of others – the truth is only which you have lived, while the rest are mere lies or if facts, then those are to be verified,” he opines.
Baujee questions the authenticity of the news too – whether published, broadcast or spread through word of mouth. To him, the credibility of any information lies in what comes to anyone’s notice – seen or listened to – himself. For Baujee, the rest is mere gossiping. “How stupid are we when we believe in others’ tongue-wagging?” he asserts.
His understanding is …. The human beings have become vulnerable to trusting others, and their minds have been filled with lies. The masses have been consumed by lies trusting those to be true. He does not want to believe in what others say, what is seen by others, and others’ beliefs to be true.
Bauji stops offering his morning prayers, and for his family, friends and associates, he is a non-believer now. The religious offering ‘parsad’ is good in taste, and he does not attach any piety to it. With this mindset, he rejects the intangible existence of god.
Bauji questions his working as a travel agent, and resigns without any information to the family. When he reaches his workplace, he simply refuses to impart the information, which is already available through various sources, or the information being thrown on to others.
This whole scenario alienates him from his family and friends, and he whiles away his time roaming around, much to their dismay. With the family in disarray, more discomforts are approaching fast – now it has become an eventful family, based in Delhi.
Was he trying to break away from the status quo? He is certainly! Resultantly, Baujee is caught in the worldly wrangling, and is distraught with his situation since he loses his support from the system. A financially-crippled Baujee, he voluntarily goes mum. A man in search of the truth, joins a gambling den – perhaps giving equal weightage to an illegal game and living a life of the truth.
Baujee marries his daughter to her liking. Now, he was free of the domestic burdens. Goes out with his wife one last time.
As the events turn out, the dream is repeated in reality – Baujee is flying, perhaps to live only in the plot of the film.
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