

Her mother, a college lecturer by profession, is a sweet and down-to-earth woman who loves cooking and appreciating her own culinary skills. Her father is a doctor by profession and enjoys recording and listening to his own renditions of songs. She introduces the audience to her parents. The story resumes in 1999 where the baby girl, Pooja Mathew, is now a seventeen year old tomboy in grade 12.

Mathew glares at the stranger and praises God once again. As the stranger says this, a nurse comes out of the delivery room carrying the baby, apologizing that she made a mistake, and confirming that the baby is actually a girl. A stranger comments that Mathew was lucky the baby was not a girl, as he would have had to worry about her all his life. He learns that his wife has delivered a baby boy and thanks God for the good news. Mathew Devasya anxiously paces the hall outside of a delivery room.
