Scientist Dr. Sanjay Mehra, has created a computer from which he sends variations of the syllable om into space, hoping to attract extraterrestrial life. When he believes he has finally received a response, the scientific community mocks him. While driving home, an alien spacecraft appears overhead. Distracted, Sanjay drives off the road, causing the car to explode, killing him. His pregnant wife Sonia, survives with injuries and from Canada, returns to her home, India. When her son, Rohit, is born, he is mentally disabled due to an injury he received in the accident as a fetus. Sonia learns that surgery is the only solution to Rohit's disability, but it could result in paralysis or death. Not wanting to lose her only remaining relation and sign of her husband, she raises him in the town of Kasauli, where he grows up to be a man of limited intellect.