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Rakesh and Sheila: Anil's parents.
Arun: Anil's brother.
Srikanth: Anil's best friend.
Rekha: A woman who falls in love with Anil when he is in his thirties. He falls in love with her, too, but it doesn't go very far.
Jayanth, Vignesh, Anitha, Premila, and several others: Anil's students.
So here's the story outline:
Sandhya and Anil meet at university and Sandhya slowly falls in love with Anil. Anil likes her too, but his feelings for her aren't so deep. He is attracted to her because of her good looks and her sweet personality. Sandhya feels disappointed and upset with her parents because she feels they are trying to "use" her. She feels that Anil is different, and she thinks that he really cares about her and her feelings. Nirmala, who is her best friend, feels that Anil is not so sincere to Sandhya, and tries to explain this to her, but fails.
Anil hides his relationship with Sandhya from his parents, because he knows they will not approve of it. When it seems as if his parents are about to find out about it, he breaks off the relationship.
Sandhya is shattered when Anil leaves her, and tell Nirmala that she feels very upset - she feels betrayed by everyone in her life.
A couple of days later, Sandhya falls from a window on the third floor of the students' hostel and dies. It is officially declared to be a tragic accident, but Nirmala thinks it was suicide.
Nirmala confronts Anil in private and angrily tells him that he is responsible for Sandhya's death.
Anil then begins to feel guilty. He begins to change. For several months after Sandhya's death, he is depressed. He withdraws from his social circle. He then begins to feel he has a responsibilty towards Sandhya - he feels he should dedicate the rest of his life to doing those things that she would have done, had she lived. He begins to take his mathematics studies more seriously. He is driven to excel and becomes a lecturer at the university. He is highly respected by his students, because he is a brilliant mathematician and teacher. But he is still a lonely person. Although most people hold him in high regard, he feels very ashamed of himself, and feels that he doesn't deserve the respect he gets from others. He cuts himself off from his friends. The others move on. Nirmala gets married and has children. So does Anil's best friend, Srikanth.
When he reached the age of twenty-eight, his parents, unaware of his previous relationship with Sandhya, try to persuade him to get married, but he refuses. He steadfastly refuses for several years, and his parents, although deeply saddened, give up. He too, feels sad about upsetting his parents in this way (he loves his parents deeply), but feels he simply has no choice.
When he is in his mid-thirties, Anil meets another woman, called Rekha, and they start to have feelings for each other. His parents see a glimmer of hope for him. Rekha doesn't know about the demons that haunt Anil. Anil, tormented by guilt, lets his feelings die. Rekha soon comes to accept that they are not meant to be together.
The years and the decades pass by, many hundreds of students come and go, many of them achieve academic brilliance under Anil's tutelage, all of them respect him, and all of them find that although he is a patient and dedicated teacher, almost noone is able to understand him as an individual - he just doesn't seem to "connect" with anyone. Nirmala and Srikanth are the only two people who understand Anil's mind.
short and crisp.......
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