Among these are an estranged wife (Tisca Chopra) now happily settled in the US, a separated son whose heart still beats for India, an injured dancer necessitating a hurried replacement and another one who coughs blood as the competition reaches a crescendo. If that were not enough, the characters are given to unabashed displays of overarching religious zeal and, of course, much patriotic chest thumping and tricolour waving.