After directing a critically raved short film named
Anba, Ashok, a struggling screenwriter, wants to do his next one as a feature-length "
commercial" film, but does not have an idea about the script. One day, when he sees his wife Maya with love, an idea strikes his mind; Ashok tries to write a love story, but is still confused about his plan. He then decides to write the script which is first set in college, and imagines Maya and himself as the characters with the former as a boxer, a strong and bold girl and the latter as an emotionally weak, but rebellious college-goer. He further imagines the female as a social activist, who is upset as nothing goes right in the country while the male ignores her. One day, during the argument, she is hit by a lorry driver and then dies, which makes him heartbroken but, from the pain of her loss, he turns a new leaf and decided to help the world like her. After pitching the idea, Ashok plans to write a boxing story; but he decides against doing so, as he initially intended to do a love story. Ashok plans to make the characters as chefs, and the story being set in a kitchen. But his inner voice opines that there should be a strong reason for the characters to be in a kitchen. So he develops the female as from a rich, strict family who has a compulsion to do everything on time and cannot experiment everything on recipes and the male as
insomniac. One night, both of them get locked up in the kitchen and both of them live together sharing all the emotions, but due to the over-exertion the male suffers from cardiac arrest and dies, for which he feels that the remedy for insomnia is eternal sleep. Ashok's inner voice interrupts again in his thoughts, as it feels that it should be a tragedy, while Ashok retorts that "this isn't what real life is, what has ever ended well?". He looks back at the poster of
Anba, based on the reality of life, but the film was hailed by critics as a "commercial-
fantasy movie of the year", while his inner voice opines that it was made so realistically and was a good film though. Ashok then thinks of writing about a real film based on a struggling writer and a loner, who has no one to support him in his life. Eventually, he gets tired of his loneliness and creates an imaginary wife for himself, as a source of inspiration for all his new stories, which is based on his own real life. It works, then he starts writing a script titled
Maya. == Cast ==