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By
IndiaFM News Bureau, April 4, 2007 - 16:24 IST
Character Sketch
 Saif Ali Khan as Rajveer Singh (RV)
Hi. I'm RV. The best race car driver in the world!
Sounds nice to be able to finally say that, especially
since I've wanted to be one, ever since I was a little
boy, racing model cars around my room. Racing has
always been my dream, and after Mom & Dad died, I
worked even harder towards that goal. Since I never
really had much interest in studies, I dropped out of
college & started working in the pit-crew of a racing
team: the only way I could be near race cars! My life
seemed to be going smoothly along this loveless
still-nowhere-near-driving-a-race-car track, until one
momentous cab ride later, everything changed.
That's when I met Harry (my future manager) and
Radhika (my future wife), all in the space of 5
minutes. One crazy trip later, I was the new race car
driver for 'Speeding Saddles'; and a couple of chance
encounters (and my first win in a race) later, I was
in love: with the most beautiful & intelligent &
talented & creative & …… (you get the picture…) woman
who ever came out of West Bengal to live in New York.
A music student & a racer don't somehow seem like the
best of matches, but sometimes the cliché works.
Opposites do attract and we were quite possibly the
happiest couple in Manhattan. And that's how Rajveer
Singh the pit-crew tyre changer became RV the racer. I
was a man with a new job that I had been dreaming
about my entire life, a love that I kept dreaming
about and everything that I could have asked for. And
then my kids arrived on the scene. Princess and Champ
- the two people who suddenly gave my life a new
meaning. I didn't think I could be happier, but I was!
My career took off much like my car when the starter
flag goes down, and my family was the backbone that
kept me going. Seeing them cheer me on at every race
that I won was what made the dream even more beautiful
in its reality.
Until that fateful accident…
That one day changed things forever. I was forced to
give up my dream career and my dream life. Everything
came crashing down to a very painful and a very
changed reality. A reality which involved giving up
the wild and racy lifestyle that I had always
followed. I tried to make it back… but it was never
the same. But now, I have no choice. Something has
happened and I need to win. But I don't know what will
happen. Will I be able to overcome my fears on the
racetrack? Will I be able to save my family? Will I
once again become the best father, the best husband
and the best racer that I have always been for my wife
and kids?
 Rani Mukerji as Radhika
Life can be the most unexpected journey of all. This
is something that I have learnt over my many years
with RV, the man who I never thought could be the kind
of person I could fall for. My life as Radhika Shekhar
Rai Banerjee started off with ambition and very
careful planning. I always knew what I wanted to be
and exactly how I wanted to get there. Right from when
I was a little girl playing with my carefully
organized & acquired dolls to when I decided to pursue
a career in music - everything I have done has been
well thought out and every step chalked along the way.
My Dad, who owns one of the biggest software companies
in the world, obviously approved. But everything
changed when one sunny day I happened to get into a
cab that took off with a bang & propelled me into a
life that I had never thought I would lead.
RV exploded into my life with the usual madness &
energy that I have now come to expect from him as an
everyday trait. Before I knew it, I was sitting in the
stands of the New York Speedway, cheering on with wild
abandon a man that I had barely met 2 days ago. But
that's what I mean about life being unexpected. Love
too, in this case. I fell in love in a manner
completely contrary to everything that I've ever done
so far, and it was the best thing that ever happened
to me! And suddenly Radhika Shekhar Rai Banerjee, the
straight-laced girl became 'Shona', a woman in love.
Life with RV was always a roller-coaster ride of
emotions, and things didn't change even with the
arrival of Princess & Champ - the two shining lights
in my life. We were the ideal happy family that I
never knew I wanted, but was so content that I had!
But life, in all its unpredictability, had more in
store for us…
RV's departure from the race track forced us to give
up the idyll of a happy & content life, including our
beautiful house. Suddenly we had to fend for a living
using any means possible, all the while maintaining a
facade of normalcy for the sake of our children. Will
I be able to keep my family together while struggling
against the vagaries of life? Will I manage to see us
through yet another crisis?
 Angelina Idnani as Priya
Welcome to my world… the world of Priya Rajveer
Singh. I am 'Princess' to the people who are close to
me. I have four important people in my world and
without them I am lost - Papa, Mama, Champ and Bruno
(our dog)… I love them all… strictly in that order! I
love my school, Miss Peggy my teacher and my friends…
not in that order... ha ha ha!!! I love when Papa
races. He looks so good in his uniform, wow! Mama,
Champ and myself we all go and cheer Papa!
Champ and I are good children, we never fight… well
almost never :)
I am his big sister, and also his friend. But when
Papa had his accident, we got really scared… and life
is not like it used to be. I want my old world back a
happy world in which there were smiling faces of Papa,
Mama, Champ and Bruno!
Ali Haji as Champ
Hi. I am Ranveer Rajveer Singh but pyaar se
everyone calls me ‘Champ’ - because when I was born,
my Papa won a big big race. I like to go school,
listen to Princess because she is always right. I also
like to fight with her. My favourites are Cars and
Burgers - I love to eat burgers. I also like to play
games. I don't like to make Mama-Papa, Princess sad. I
always want us to be smiling and happy. And I always
sing the song they love “ta ra rum pum…”
Storyline
 This is the story of one man, his family and how they
overcome the obstacles that life puts in their way,
together. It is the story of human spirit and how it
ultimately prevails.
Rajveer Singh (Saif Ali Khan) is a pit-crew worker in
a racing team with a passion for driving who gets
discovered by a team manager, Harry (Jaaved Jaaferi).
The same day he accidentally meets a music student,
Radhika (Rani Mukerji), who he falls for instantly. He
gets drafted into 'Speeding Saddles' – a failing race
team and transforms from Rajveer Singh to “RV” the
race car driver. While his racing career takes off
instantly, his love life also blossoms after a
whirlwind romance. A few months later, he is both a
happily married man and one of the country's best
racers. Fatherhood and greater success both follow and
soon he is the Number 1 race car driver in the USA, as
well as the proud father of two precocious kids Priya
(Angelina Idnani) and Ranveer (Ali Haji).
But as a result of a bad racing accident, RV is
hospitalized for a few months. When he tries to make a
comeback, he realizes that he has been mentally
scarred by the accident and has lost his edge. His
life now takes a turn for the worse and after a string
of failures, he is forced to auction his house and
move with his family to a run-down Bronx-style
neighborhood.
However, RV and Radhika decide not to tell their
children the truth and construct a skillful masquerade
of a reality show where they have to live a poor life
in order to win a mythical grand prize. The family
struggles to survive a life that they are not used to,
using a mixture of fantasy and cheerfulness to pull
through in the face of adversity. But an incident
forces RV to reclaim the life that was taken away from
him.
Can he, once again and perhaps for a last time, face
down his inner demons on the race track?
Can the family remain together in the wake of what
could perhaps be their biggest challenge yet?
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