D K Malhotra (Naseeruddin Shah), an architect, has a happy married life with
his wife Indu (Shabana Azmi) and two daughters. A bombshell drops on him when he
discovers that he has a child from an extra-marital affair. He brings home his
son (Jugal Hansraj) and confesses to Indu that he is his own offspring. She
rejects every attempt of the child's to reach out to her. Though the daughters
can feel the tension between the parents, they are unable to understand the
reason. D K arranges for his son to be put into boarding school and he takes him
there too, but is unable to salve his conscience at the act of betrayal that he
would be commiting. He brings him back and Indu very reluctantly accepts him
into the fold.
