"An American Boy",a work-in-progress nearing completion deals with the travails experienced by Aman Mirchandani,an Indian-American Boy and son of one of the nation's richest immigrants,who travels to India, the country of his ancestors,a country he has never seen before,only to become a fugitive and finally a seeker of self-actualization in his shortlived existence.
In a complex web of treachery,deceit and intrigue,the story revolves around the strange disappearance of a mystery boy who has traveled all the way from America to the country of his ancestors,India to complete his dissertation on peace.The boy,Aman Mirchandani,son of Reshma and Himesh Mirchandani (one of America's richest immigrants)is obsessed with peace.It is following his arrival in India that he learns of the murder of Amy Adams,his best friend while she was in India and this has a deep impact on his psyche driving him almost to insanity.The people responsible for Amy Adams' murder,the Deos (Roshan,Ranbir and Ravi)are arch-rivals of the boy's father.
Aman Mirchandani has made some very loyal friends in India ('who are helping him write his dissertation'!)including his loyal personal chauffeur,Raja.But the boy's eccentric ways lead him on to commit 'crimes he has never committed' for which he is imprisoned.One night,the boy and his loyal chauffeur and two others escape from prison only to board the Doon Express from Calcutta to Dehradun.On the way,however,the boy and his friends murder an old man on the train who was trying to force his child bride,Kamli.Unable to wash their hands off the murder,the boy and his accomplices get down midway,board the first train to and settle in Delhi.Therein,unfolds a complex web of treachery and deceit in which the boy's once loyal chauffeur and his friends betray him and join hands with the Deos in their illegal organ trafficking trade.
The situation becomes more complex as the boy impregnates Kamli who has now given birth to a child Rahul who is finally adopted by the Deos in a complex turn of fortuna and misfortune.Aman Mirchandani,the missing boy dies in the end in a quest for self-actualization.
Dr.Richard Weisz as the Mirchandanis' house-physician and Detective Fox,Sergeant John Mill and Ms Kelly Lowe as the 'investigators' also have a crucial role to play.
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