Manisha Koirala and Kamal Haasan at Mumbai Express press conference

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Kamal Hassan says "Even the deal that we made was very informally made, so I am fumbled with a very formal speech. Yes, I am looking forward to the same longevity in this relationship. Everything about this film happened very fast as we came up with the idea out of the blue in Bangalore." After having spent his entire life in Bombay's Dharavi slums, Digamber feels it is time that he takes steps to improve his lifestyle. He, along with two other slum-dwellers, plot to kidnap the only son (Shravan) of a wealthy businessman, Kishore Mehta. Things do not go as planned as one of their partners gets hospitalized when he gets a reaction from locally brewed alcohol. Since this plot involves three males, Avinash, a deaf, but dare-devil motorcycle rider is recruited. Things do not go quite as planne