A wealthy and successful entrepreneur has a son, Badri, who begins exhibiting strange mental behaviors that affect his relationships. Rumors spread about Badri's "lunacy" and it starts damaging his father's wealth and reputation. Badri's condition worsens over time, also hurting his relationship with his wife and family. The story explores whether the present generation can figure out Badri's mysterious illness and restore the family's former glory, or if this condition will continue damaging more descendants over multiple generations.
2. A self-made, successful
entrepreneur dearly
loves his only son who
adores him back.
But there is something
else, stealthily obtaining
absolute control of his
son.
3. Plagued by rumours
and warnings from
well-wishers, the father
turns utterly helpless
and hopeless about his
son, Badri’s ‘lunacy’.
Thus affecting his
hard-earned wealth and
reputation
4. Badri’s mental
condition begins to mar
not just his perception
of things but also sours
his relationship with
his father, wife and the
rest of his family.
5. Can the present
generation untangle
Badri’s mysterious
mental condition, and
restore the family’s
erstwhile glory?
Considering this
condition has
consumed many more
descendants…
6. ‘The Withering
Banyan’ – a poignant
story of a glorious south
Indian family that
succumbs to an
unknown and
undecipherable mental
condition in a saga that
begins in the pre-
independence era and
spans over five
generations.