[1] The film also features Shahrukh Khan and Manoj Bajpayee, both then struggling actors in the Delhi theatre circuit, in small but significant roles.

Set in the 1970s, in the National Institute of Architecture, New Delhi, the plot revolves around Anand Grover, known as Annie, a misguided visionary who gets into trouble for making fun of the principal, Y.D.

[8] In 1974, Anand "Annie" Grover is victimized for making fun of his principal, Y. D. Billimoria (popularly known as Yamdoot or Hell's messenger), years ago.

Annie keeps two hens in his room and earns a modest sum by selling their eggs, until one day his friend, Mankind, and his Ugandan roommate, Kasozi, make a roasted meal out of them.

Soon, however, hirsute Arjun and his girlfriend Radha – a non-conformist student who steals cigarettes from Yamdoot and talks back to the teachers – present Annie with a rabbit.

An epilogue then reveals the fates of the characters: Papey returned to Ludhiana as a building contractor after failing to graduate, Lakes runs an interior design firm in South Delhi, Kasozi is the vice chairman of the Kampala Urban Development Authority, Mankind is the architect for a departmental store chain in Copenhagen, Arjun has become the second biggest commercial marigold farmer in India, Radha pivots towards writing but drowns to death in 1976 before she can complete her first novel, and Annie is appointed assistant professor of design at the National Institute of Architecture in 1977, a year after Yamdoot's retirement.