Chehra

Bandini Pandit lives with her parents and younger sister in Kausali. She’s full of life & joy… always smiling… witty… in love with nature…

Even though, as the consequence of an unfortunate accident, she’s been on a wheelchair since she was ten. Her lower middle class family has already spent more than they can afford. Doctors and surgeons have since long given up hope in getting her to walk again. Bandini has taken her handicap in her stride and doesn’t let pity or sympathy bring her down. We catch up with her when she’s actually being the life of her younger sisters’ wedding at Kasauli. Here, she comes across a young, wealthy & good-looking bachelor, Garv. Garv, promising young businessman and heir to an industrialist fortune, is astonished by Bandini’s great analytical and statistical mind. He discovers that Bandini is a genius at solving puzzles and complex mathematical equations. He spends some quality time with Bandini not only tying to diagnose her handicap problem but exploring along with her Kasauli. Bandini is amused at why Garv would want to spend time with an invalid like her, when he has hundreds of women falling all over him. Garv reveals to her that he hates gold diggers and that’s what all these women are. Garv is desperate to get away from these fake surroundings and boring functions and rather spend time with Bandini whose motto of jeeo jee bhar ke, intrigues him. Garv who is also a brilliant painter out of hobby, sketches numerous portraits of Bandini in the romantic locales of Kasauli. The parting at Kasauli is inevitable. Bandini does her best to get Garv out of her mind and treat it just as another happy dream that she had. However, she is in for a huge shock when, a few days later, Garv along with his family appears at her modest home, & proposes marriage. Bandini’s family is over the moon with the proposal, & all, including Bandini are also more than a little intrigued.

Finally, having convinced themselves of the genuineness of the proposal, they accept. Neighbors, friends, relatives are stunned by such a great proposal for an invalid Bandini. Some think there is something sinister, others feel its Bandini’s good Karma’s and others believe its just pure love. What is really is something Bandini will only begin to discover when she enters the intriguing Lake House…Garv’s huge mansion on the hills, overlooking a lake…

Why did Garv really marry an invalid woman…? Why does his family continue to stay on at Lake House despite the memories of the unfortunate accident there …?

Why are some of the family members so sweet to her, while others are so mean…? The lake itself holds out a mystery of an unfortunate & mysterious accident … one body was found, & not the other…Her husband, too, seems to smoothly glide between extremely loving… & utterly cold… leaving Bandini perplexed by his mood swings…Bandini’s legs pose another challenge… there are only so many things she can explore at the mansion… only so many places she can approach… & definitely not the lake…!

It’s a Hitchcockian mystery that will not unravel any simple truths…One that will suck in Bandini, & become an obsession…One that is deep… as the lake itself…


(Source: http://www.starplus.in/pages/index.php?s=Chehra&showid=5&pid)