India is a land of a billion people, 60 percent of which are living in over 50,000 villages spread around the country. Besides the best efforts of the Indian Rural Department about 87,000 of these villages to this date do not have electricity. Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost takes place in one such village.

The film deals with a month in the life of Kanji (Abhishek Bachchan), whose innocent gift to his grandfather's recently electrified village, sparks a power struggle and ends up with laugh out loud humor. The modern world takes over the lives of these villagers, which had been alien to them so far.

This film is about the old and new, the rural and the post-modern. At the core of the film is a simple drama of the heart, enriched with acute observations of village psychology, an accurate portrayal of the little-known aspects of Indian culture.

Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost is shot in a fluid, visually dynamic style, emphasizing hand-held camera work, steady –cam shots and rhythmic editing.