“My mother was a wicked woman. She did not love me.”

This is how little Rahul (Master Yash Pathak) knows his mother. His father, Akash (Jatin Grewal), told him and he believed it. She left him and his father immediately after Rahul’s birth and he never found out why. All he knew was that she was wicked enough to have left them and that she was a taboo topic at home.

Rahul and his father Akash lived, cooked, sang, exercised, fought, laughed and cried together. Theirs was a complete family, a place where two men (and Rahul was definitely a man at 5) led a life of complete harmony. Rahul could toast bread for his father, lay the table and even polish his shoes on his own.

Every morning he saw his father off to work at the bus depot, for Akash ran a travel agency by himself, and then walked off to school. He had Jumbo and a 9-year-old Isha (Tanvi Hegde) for friends, while his drawing kept him company at other times. Isha amazed him with her ‘magic’ and Rahul was slave to her every idea, every piece of advice Isha had in store for him. His world didn’t seem to need a mother.

And then, one sunny afternoon in church, he discovered that his mother wasn’t the wicked one he had imagined at all. In fact, she seemed to remember him every day of those five years and continues to love him dearly. Ever since he finds this out from John (Gulshan Grover), a local grocery man, Rahul has a plan to meet his mother, Meera (Neha).

When he does, he discovers that she did indeed loves him and is overwhelmed to have him back. Yet, she never wants to meet his father ever again. Reconciliation between them seems next to unfeasible.

Meanwhile, Akash decides to marry winsome Sheela (Rajeshwari Sachdev), while Meera is being wooed by the gentle Naveen (Mahesh Thakur). A double marriage seems to be on the cards and every attempt of Rahul and Isha to thwart these inevitabilities prove unsuccessful.

On Rahul’s fifth birthday, his mother plans to file for custody while his father plans to get married to counter the lawsuit. Who will Rahul opt for?

This is the adult world of dilemmas, anger, betrayal, hurt and humiliation that Rahul has to deal with and he has no clue how to go about it. All he knows is that he loves both his parents equally and wants nothing more than having them together again.

RAHUL is a heart-warming story that pits a child’s innocence against adult problems. A refreshing look at the adult world from a child’s point of view.