Karthik Calling Karthik

Karthik Calling Karthik

Karthik (Farhan Akhtar) is an introvert who lacks confidence in dealing with everyday life situations and feels trapped in his average job at a construction company, that produces even lesser than average results. Shonali (Deepika Padukone) is a co-worker at Karthik's company.

Karthik’s boss Kamath (Ram Kapoor) and landlord treat him extremely negatively, often humiliating and disrespecting him, and Karthik has to put up with these insults on a daily basis purely on account of his inability to counter them strongly. Shonali, on the other hand, portrays for Karthik, an independent, classy and confident woman, who remains unaware of his secret love for her, much less his existence even though he's worked at the company for close to 4 years. Karthik attempts to email her his feelings very regularly, but on each occasion, stops himself and saves the mails in his Drafts folder.