Hopes) is a 2010 Indian Hindi-language drama film written and directed by Nagesh Kukunoor, and produced by Percept Picture Company and T-Series.

Rahul Sharma (John Abraham) is a compulsive gambler and, while betting, wins 30 million rupees.

That night, he finds a piece of newspaper in which he sees an advertisement for a rehabilitation centre for persons with such incurable diseases to spend the last days of their lives in it.

Once Rahul gets into the centre, he meets several people like Parthasarthi (Girish Karnad), who speaks with the help of an electrolarynx because of his cancer; Madhu (Farida Jalal), who was a prostitute and an AIDS patient now; Padma (Anaitha Nair), a teenage girl with a lot of dreams but no life to fulfill them – she can't even walk properly; and Govinda (Ashwin Chitale), a comic-loving kid, who is said to have certain higher capabilities, and everybody treats him as a messenger of God.

In the story, he is on a mission to find his lost whip, which is locked in a box in the palace of death.

[5] The title is inspired by the song "Aashayein" from Nagesh Kukunoor directed film Iqbal.

This music is composed by Pritam, Salim–Sulaiman (Ab mujhko jeena) and Shiraz Uppal (Rabba).

[6] Three Songs lyrics are penned by Mir Ali Husain, but Other ones Irshad Kamil (Dilkash Dildar Duniya), Ashish Pandit.

IANS rated the film 3.5 out of 5 saying, "This is unarguably Kukunoor’s most sensitive and moving work since "Iqbal".

[7] Rajeev Masand of IBN gave 1.5/5 and commented, "Aashayein is a difficult film to sit through (...) it is in fact a serious test of your patience.