Due to insistence, Raja goes into a flash back. Raja talks with a manager / veteran colonel named Manivannan in the station. Then the movie resumes at a train station on New Year Day, 1999. Raja heeds his mom's pleas and moves to Mumbai to attend under graduate entrance exam at Ramachandra Institute of Management Studies, the top-most premier b-school in India. Raja's mom begs him to move to Mumbai to start a new life. But he refuses to fund him, and orders him to start work as accountant for their landlord. But, Raja's mother forced his father to let Raja finish high school, without doing any other work. Raja's family struggles to survive hard every day. He spends half of the family's income on alcohol. There, poor boys are made to work from age five, either at factories or farms, so that they can support their families. People from his region consider that "education is meant only for the rich". Raja is from a very poor, illiterate family, from Tamil Nadu.
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