Saas Bahu Aur Sensex
With her mother suddenly divorcing her father and
leaving their comfortable home in Kolkata, Nitya finds herself in the
new environs of Navi (new) Mumbai.
Finding her bearings, in a
new city, letting go of her ambition to study in the USA for her MBA and
to begin work at a call centre is tough. She finds it a little easier
however to cope with the situation, courtesy her newfound friend, Ritesh
Jetmalani.
Ritesh is the nicest guy on the planet, and maybe
even in the universe. He does everything with full sincerity. In fact he
confesses that he has only two vices, one is that he's always running
late (mostly because he's stopped to help someone), and the other is
that he loves to eat non-Veg food (he swears he'll quit one day). His
third vice [which he won't admit] is his passion for girlfriend Kirti
Wagaskar a selfish, but charming young lady looking for a short cut to a
better life. (She has him on standby in case she doesn't land a richer
catch.)
Nitya's mother Vinita Sen is troubled by her failed
marriage. She hopes to find the new start she needs, in New Mumbai. She
is befriended by the women in the colony and joins their kitty parties.
She knows her daughter is angry with her and blames her for their
situation, but believes that this was their best alternative to find
their own place under the sun.
Vinita's father had left her some
shares and she traces her father's old stock broking house to fiqure
out the maze of the stock market reality. Here she meets Firoz Sethna an
ethical but cranky and eccentric stock broker who teaches her the ropes
of correct investing. Nitya gets pulled into daily life at the call
centre; she and Ritesh develop a wonderful relationship. She tries to
warn him that Kirti is using him. Ritesh believes that all human beings
are essentially good and says he loves Kirti for her spirit, sure she
pushes him around but she won't always be like that, she'll realize how
much he loves her and things will change.
In the meantime, the
group of kitty party ladies, feel, that Vinita is up to something
dubious, they haven't got the gossip on her... And why did she leave her
husband anyways? Her house is getting swankier, so is her attire, she
keeps meeting a strange man. When Vinita is confronted by these
suspicious ladies who imagine the worst of her, she shares her stock
market fortunes and soon kitty conversations about TV soaps switch to
conversations on Indian business and investments.
Kirti Wagaskar
is no ordinary middle class girl; she plans to marry RICH. She hates
her elder sister Parimal's life who is a housewife to her grouchy
traditional husband, Ganpatrao. Serving Coffee at Costa's, she spends an
entire month's salary on a Gucci bag and dreams of landing Yash Modi, a
billionaire by birth.
As life's uncanny logic kicks in, she
meets Yash and her interaction with him tips the calm of modern colony.
Nitya is caught in the cross fire as Kirti plays Ritesh and Nitya to
suit her whims.
Yash Modi's father Ketan Modi owns a large share
of the financial call centre 'M & M' that Ritesh and Nitya work in.
Vinita and her colony friends have recently invested in the company
based on news that Yash Modi marriage has been arranged with the
daughter of the owner Macmillan financial group.
When Kirti
realizes that Yash has no intention of marrying her, she agrees to marry
Ritesh. Ritesh knows nothing of Kirti and Yash's relationship. He is
thrilled.
With all kitty ladies invested emotionally and
financially in the company, Ritesh marrying Kirti is best for everyone
and Nitya, despite her feelings for Ritesh, watches the wedding morning
arrive in silence. If Yash married Kirti it would break Ritesh's golden
heart and spell financial disaster for the colony's new amateur
investors, who are banking on the Modi Macmillian tie up, to improve
their savings and investing prospectives.
Vinita sees her
daughter's dilemma and finally tells her the real reason for her coming
to New Mumbai. Her husband had left her for a younger woman, and she
didn't want her daughter to deal with the pressure or gossip nor did she
want to be dependent him. Nitya realizes that her mother getting
together with these amateur investors who have switched from watching
soaps to watching CNBC, to look for investing opportunities, even if
they are “aunties” is cool after all.
Is love is meant to be?
How do Vinita and her daughter find their place in the masala of the New
Mumbai world, with the stock market fluctuations, kitty parties, soap
operas and the changing tides of New India?