- Widowed soon after marriage, a young woman grapples with an inability to grieve, quirky relatives, and a startling discovery about her late husband.
- Sandhya is left a very young widow after her husband Astik passes away a few months after their wedding. His parents are depressed as he was their financial support. The extended Giri family gathers in the house for morning for 13 days, but Sandhya seems much less affected, and the family is puzzled by how active she is on social media. When her best friend Nazia arrives, she tells her that Astik was seeing another woman. Then everyone finds out that Astik has left a 50-Lakh insurance policy behind for Sandhya while the extended family members try to convince her father-in-law Shivendra to transfer the policy to his name to clear his debts.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com
- In the film, a young widow Sandhya (Sanya Malhotra) and her family are dealing with the loss of her husband, Aastik, who died after just five months of marriage. Aastik's parents (Usha (Sheeba Chaddha) and Shivendra Giri (Ashutosh Rana)) are deeply saddened by the sudden loss of their eldest son, on whom they were financially dependent. The family suffers, even more, when their relatives (uncles and aunts of Astik) come to the house and create a mess. Parchun (Aasif Khan), a neighbor of the Giris. Janaki (Yamini Singh), Shivendra's sister. Tulika (Meghna Malik), Shivendra's sister-in-law, whose husband left her and went to Dubai. Amidst a house full of grieving relatives, Sandhya yawns through the social media condolence posts and "copy-paste" comments for her dead husband, Astik. Her attitude leaves some puzzled and others miffed. A relative, Ghanashyam (Jameel Khan) (Younger bro of Shivendra), suggests she is suffering from PTSD. Pappu is Shivendra's elder brother and ultra traditionalist. He imposes tonnes of rules in the house about following proper rituals, which are tough on Sandhya and Alok (Aasthik's younger brother)..
When Sandhya's best friend Nazia comes to support her, Sandhya confesses to her that she does not feel anything for the loss of her husband. To get away from the mourning family, she sneaks away with her best friend Nazia (Shruti Sharma) for a feast of 'golgappe' even as Astik's younger brother Alok (Chetan Sharma) performs the necessary rituals at the river. Parchun is interested in Nazia and takes her out for dates while she stays with Sandhya till the 13th day.
Sandhya and Astik were never really a close couple in the few months they shared. While looking for Astik's documents for the bank claim, Sandhya finds a photo of a girl in the closet. Sandhya feels anger toward her dead husband thinking he was cheating on her. When Astik's office colleagues visit her to give condolences, she finds the girl from the photo, Aakanksha (Sayani Gupta). Sandhya confronts her in private about the affair. Aakanksha states that Astik and she were deeply in love since college and they both worked in the same company. But he never cheated on his wife, and that they were together until Astik married Sandhya. They could not get married as her parents did not agree on their marriage. Sandhya finds this hard to believe. The two, however, grow close, as she tries to know more about Astik from Aakanksha. She takes Sandhya to all the places which they visited while dating and gave her a glimpse into who the real Astik was.
Meanwhile, members of the family react when it is revealed that Astik had signed an insurance policy for INR 50 Lakhs, of which Sandhya was the sole nominee. Tarun (Rajesh Tailang), Ghanshyam, and Pappu (Raghubir Yadav) (Brothers of Shivendra) convince Shivendra, to use the insurance money for repaying his own bank loans, who then unwillingly tries to make himself and his wife, the nominees instead of Sandhya. Shivendra and Usha, still grieving the loss of their son, try to come to terms with the family's proposal that Sandhya should be married off to Aditya (Nakul Roshan Sahdev). Aditya is the paternal cousin of Astik (Son of Tarun. Tarun and Shivendra are not on speaking terms) who is unemployed and failing to manage money for his hotel business. This idea is so that the insurance money stays in the family (Part of it will go to Shivendra to pay off the home loan and remaining will be used by Aditya to start his restaurant business).
Sandya is invited to Aakanksha's house where she is jealous of the lavish life she lives. she confronts her and asks which side Astik slept on, in her bed. Sandhya blames Aakanksha for Astik never falling in love with her. Sandhya spends some time with Shivendra and realizes a lot of money is being spent on Astik's funeral. Sandhya asks Aditya why he wants to marry her. He says he is in love with her, which touches her heart and she accepts the proposal. This angers her parents (Alka (Natasha Rastogi) & Girish Pandey (Bhupesh Pandya)) and Astik's brother, who is also in love with her. Alok tells Sandhya that Aditya does not love her. On the 13th day of Astik's funeral, Aditya leaves hastily. His parents tell everyone that Sandhya told him that she is pregnant with Astik's child. It is revealed by Aditi (Ashlesha Thakur) (Aditya's sister) that Sandhya lied about her pregnancy to test Aditya's love for her. Sandhya goes missing from the house after the funeral.
While Sandhya leaves the house, ready to begin a new life with a new job in a new city. Even after being a topper in her MA class, her family never let her do the job. She shared how since childhood, the main focus of her parents was to marry her off, not concerned about letting her being self-independent. Seeing Aakanksha in her office and work, she become motivated about working and being financially independent. She realizes as long as she stays here, she can live her own life as in society, other people make decisions for the women.
In three separate letters to Usha, her mother Alka, and Astik's brother Alok, she bids goodbye to her in-laws. Shivendra finds a check for the entire insurance money, which Sandhya has left for him as she believes he will need it more than her. She also promises to support her in-laws as her husband did. Sandhya meets with Aakanksha one last time and apologizes for her outburst, and gives her the photograph Astik had kept in his book. In the end, she is traveling on a bus, ready to face life afresh.
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