Aashayein is the story of Rahul (John Abraham), a gambler. He collapses down
just after his long-time girlfriend Nafisa(Sonal Sehgal) accepts his marriage
proposal. Later, on medical check-up, it is revealed that Rahul has got Lung
Cancer, presumably by his smoking habits, and that he has got only 3 more
months to live. Nafisa asks Rahul to marry her, but Rahul rejects. Later,
Rahul finds a news about a rehabilitation centre for persons with such
incurable diseases. Rahul silently runs away from his girlfriend, leaving back
most of the money he earned, for her. Once Rahul gets into the centre, he
meets several people like Parthasarthi (Girish Karnad) who speaks with the
help of a metal tube because of his cancer, Madhu (Farida Jalal) who was a
former Prostitute and an AIDS patient now, Padma (Anaitha Nair) a teenage girl
with lot of dreams, but no life to fulfil them, she cant even walk properly,
Govinda (Ashwin Chitale) a comic loving kid, who is said to have certain
higher capabilities and everybody treats him as a messenger of God. The
relationship between Rahul and each of these persons grow with time, and one
day Rahul coughs hard and struggles for breath, and he goes to Govinda’s room
and falls down there.