Second Thoughts

It seems like the perfect match. Maya is pretty, young, and eager to escape her dull, middle-class home in Calcutta and plunge into the whirl of Bombay, where she moves after her marriage,. Ranjan, handsome, hard-driving and ambitious, has all the glamour of an American university degree and a wealthy family background. Maya is determined to be the ideal wife. Instead, she finds herself trapped and stifled by the confines of an arranged marriage to a man who, she discovers, is rigidly conservative and completely indifferent to her desires.

She begins to experience, too. the utter loneliness of a stranger in suburban Bombay.

And then she strikes up a friendship with Nikhil her charming college-going neighbour, and the stage is set for an explosive tale of love, betrayal and paths not taken.