- A much abused loner achieves success, and even wins the heart of his gorgeous co-worker, after getting early morning mysterious phone calls from someone.
- Born in Delhi, but now living in Mumbai, Karthik Narayan is a much abused employee with ACL Construction, secretly in love with leggy Architect, Shonali Mukherjee, who has been going steady with yet another co-worker, Ashish. After purchasing a new telephone, Karthik gets a call from a male voice that resembles his, who instructs him to follow directions; tell no one about this phone call, and he will achieve success. He follows these instructions, is soon promoted, as well as befriends Shonali, and continues following instructions from this caller. After Shonali makes it clear that she loves him, he breaks his promise, and is urged to seek counseling by her. He reluctantly does so with a Pyschiatrist, Dr. Shweta Kapadia, who hopes to cure him by visiting him early morning in his flat - not realizing the shock and trauma that await the duo.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
- Karthik is a very intelligent man but is too timid and hence taken advantage of everywhere. The only trait he lacks is self confidence. One morning onwards he receives a phone call offering him advices which really improve his life. It gets him a promotion, the respect from his colleagues and the love of the woman he had a crush on since years. The man on the phone claims to be karthik himself, he even gives him intricate details that karthik himself would've known. Who is this man? Are the phone calls real or a fiction of Karthik's imagination? Only time will tell.—Keith Francis
- Karthik has a horrific past where he was tortured by his brother as a kid even his parents didn't pay heed to it. When his brother tried to kill him he met with the faith and Karthik blames himself for it. Shonali works in the same office as Karthik and he secretly loves her. When he is bullied by his boss, he decides to commit suicide but gets a call from another end of the voice resembling him and calling himself Karthik. The caller starts helping Karthik in solving his problems and winning Shonali's love and becomes part of his life. But Karthik decides to tell about the caller to others and problems start arising in his life.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com
- Born in Delhi, but now living in Mumbai, Karthik Narayan (Farhan Akhtar) is a much abused employee with ACL Construction, secretly in love with leggy Architect, Shonali Mukherjee (Deepika Padukone), who has been going steady with yet another co-worker, Ashish. Karthik suffers from low self esteem as he thinks he was responsible for his brother's death in childhood & hence cant stand up for himself even in adulthood. He is in therapy, but everything is backfiring for him. He listens to his therapist & asks his boss to apologize for mistreating him & he mocks Karthik in front of the whole office.
After purchasing a new telephone, Karthik gets a call from a male voice that resembles his, who instructs him to follow directions; tell no one about this phone call, and he will achieve success. He follows these instructions, learns to say no, gets a makeover. He uses his insider knowledge of his bosses shady deals & his genius skills in accounting & is soon promoted, as well as befriends Shonali after removing Ashish by threatening to reveal of his wife & kids to Shonali. After Shonali makes it clear that she loves him, he breaks his promise & tells her that he receives calls from himself that help him, Shonali thinks he is mad & asks him seek counseling. He reluctantly does so with a Pyschiatrist, Dr. Shweta Kapadia, who hopes to cure him by visiting him early morning in his flat. The call still comes & the person on the phone reveals Kapadia's intimate secrets & she gets scared & runs away.
Now Shonali is convinced that the calls are real but someone is making a fool out of Karthik. She asks him to ignore the calls & he does. Now the voice is pissed & promises to bring Karthik down. Soon Karthik is fired as the voice has revealed his bosses illegal deals to his clients & since the voice resembles Karthik, the boss believes its him. The voice also calls Shonali & calls her a slut & she breaks up with Karthik as the voice said things that Shonali only told Karthik.
Now Karthik is shit scared & gets a stranger to buy him a ticket to an unknown destination. He blindfolds himself with a blind man's goggle & reaches an unknown hotel in a new city & checks in for 2 weeks. He feels safe as himself doesn't know where he is. Few months later he is in Cochin in a small time job & at peace with himself. His new boss asks him to get a phone, so reluctantly he gets it, but ensures that he never knows the phone number himself. The call doesn't come & he is happy & emails Shonali.
Kapadia tells Shonali that Karthik is schizophrenic & that he never had a brother. Karthik was leaving voice messages on the phone for himself & that's how he fooled Kapadia & even Shonali with they came to his house. Shonali feels Karthik is in danger & traces the email to Cochin & leaves. Meanwhile Karthik again records a message for himself & when he gets the call, he is distraught & is about to commit suicide when Shonali arrives & saves him.
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