Allan (Hugh Grant) is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen (Soumitra Chatterjee) which includes his wife, Indira (Shabana Azmi) and daughter Gayatri (Supriya Pathak). Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy.

Three very different people from three very different worlds collide one winter afternoon in an anarchic Kolkata.

To please his dying daughter, a father tries to create the Durga Puja festival, usually held in October, during the month of April, in Kolkata.