In this day and age of competition, where every child is expected to join the rat race before he can even manage to walk, the story of a couple whose specially-abled son fails to understand the concept seems relevant. Every parent wants a child that is an achiever and if you don’t believe that, turn on the television with a kids’ competition on and watch the contestants’ guardians.

Shobhana and Irfan play a middle-class couple who crave for a mathematical genius but are instead stuck with an autistic child who, ironically, is named Buddhiraj. Unable to cope with destiny’s verdict, they try everything in the book and outside of it to change that.

 Desperation finally leads them to administer an unstable drug on him. It   turns him into a genius, alright, but makes him forget his parents.

 The central premise is a  sound one, but adman Kaushik Roy is so used to telling his story in 30 seconds that he fails to translate it into a three-hour movie. The film as a whole fails to tug your heart strings though a couple of  scenes bring a lump.

The problem is that he tries so hard  give the problem a surreal effect that he  instead ends up making it look unrealistic.

Shobhana and Irfan try to salvage the mess, but the patchy screenplay does not make it easier. Dhruv Panjuani who plays the lovable Buddhi shows promise.Even veterans like Anupam Kher and Rajath Kapoor are no help in this confusion of issues. 

 All in all a wasted effort, because you’d expect a more moving tale from the father with an autistic child himself.