A prisoner falls in love with the district collector’s daughter while giving her music lessons. Fearing opposition, they elope to a village and befriend the village chief who vows to get them married.

Two college students, the slum child Raja and the dean’s daughter Roja, chat with each other over the Internet and fall in love. However, Roja is engaged and Raja cannot bear to disrespect her father, to whom he owes his livelihood.

Raja (Kunal) is from a very poor, illiterate family, from Tamil Nadu (in the Hindi version he is from Allahabad). People from his region consider that “education is meant only for the rich”. There, poor boys are made to work from age 5, either at factorie