So when she comes home from USA after a long time, instead of staying with him, she puts up with an old classmate Anu (Miska Halim) and her husband Avik (San Banarje).

A story about human relationships encircling ego, pride, power and obsession, the film takes a look at urban India with its modern family setup.

Slowly we learn that Maya has not been able to forgive her father for her mother's death and that is the reason she does not stay with him while visiting India from USA.

Meantime, Avik, an aspiring filmmaker continues to find producers for his new screenplay and meets Producer Roy (Biswajit Chakraborty) who takes a liking to him because of his interest in soccer and particularly in the legendary football star Diego Maradona whose picture on Roy's desk amuses Avik.

San and Trisha wanted to create a story surrounding veteran actor Soumitra Chatterjee, after working with him in a film titled Sugarbaby that was shot in India earlier that year.

Due to the lack of budget, the film could only hire a very small number of crew, whom they had earlier worked with in Sugarbaby.

The film changed its story several times during post-production, and found its final shape during test screening in Houston, when they returned to USA.

Bodhisattva went on to win seven awards and several nominations in many national and international film festivals including Houston,[4] New Jersey,[5] Virginia,[6] New York, Oklahoma,[7] Vancouver,[8] Mexico,[9] and Spain.