‘Kyon’ follows the lives of five college friends, Vikram Desai, Tony Brar, Amar Mathur, Asha Bose and Shilpa Narang. The five personify today’s urban youth - free with their money and self-indulgent be it alcohol, drugs, sex or various forms of entertainment.

We trail the five friends as they club-hop and hang out in pubs and bowling alleys. Through these protagonists we can see how decay has set in the value systems governing our society.

‘Kyon’ makes a serious comment on the erosion of ethics in modern day youngsters whose sole aim is to constantly seek excitement and enjoyment. The current generation’s lives are completely guided by a single selfish motto -living life to the fullest regardless of honour, truth and focus. Although ‘Kyon’ is set in the city of Mumbai its reflections can be seen anywhere, in any other city or mufassil town of urban India.

The Story

The plot revolves around five college friends - Vikram, Tony, Amar, Neha and Shilpa. All of them, except Amar, belong to the upper strata of the society. Amar, who has a middle-class background, yearns to be their peer and not be labeled a sycophant. He enjoys being a part of the affluent set even though he cannot quite afford "keeping up with the Jones’s." Amar’s mother, Prabha Mathur, is understandably worried about her son imitating his rich friends in his tastes and wants.

Narang, a rich businessman, is upset that his wife always indulges their daughter’s expensive demands. Shilpa’s latest grudge is, her parents aren’t buying her the latest sports car that she’s seen on the Internet, for her coming birthday.

Aarti Bose, a fading film-star full of joie-de-vivre, encourages her daughter Neha to party and never questions her. Aarti enjoys hanging out with her daughter (who is a brilliant student) and in turn, feels youthful being seen in the same discos and bowling-alleys her daughter frequents.

Rajeev Desai, Home Minister of the State, is passionately obsessed with his immature son, Vikram. He is hounded by fears about his son’s late night homecomings and lackadaisical attitude. Nonetheless Mr. Desai has hopes of introducing Rajeev as the Youth Leader of his political party’s Youth Wing.

Mr. and Mrs. Brar are completely oblivious of Tony’s duplicitous behaviour. He is an academically brilliant student attending college regularly, which they are aware of. However they are clueless about his night-life which is smeared with drug-abuse, sexual escapades and violent irrational tantrums.

Shilpa keeps complaining about wanting a car for her birthday to her friends. And one day the four friends make a plan, without Shilpa’s knowledge, to get her the car that she so much wants. Their plan almost succeeds. Almost. None of the five ever anticipated what their near perfect plan would lead them to.

The incidents that follow, break the group apart as the murky side of the lives led by the so-called "Satellite Generation" is revealed.