The Hairdresser

Dr. Baldev Chaddha (Annu Kapoor), a fertility expert, runs a fertility clinic and a sperm bank in Daryaganj, Delhi, that guarantees high quality and specialized sperm for couples without issue. Unfortunately, he has more failed cases to his credit than successes. Couples are willing to spend big amounts of money with Chaddha, but some have not had success for more than 2 years. Chaman (Bupesh Pandya) is Dr Chaddha's assistant. A healthy and high-performing donor is therefore need of the hour. Men do not want to be sperm donors due to the lack of understanding and social stigma attached to the activity of masturbation. Most of the people who respond to Chaddha's ad are either very old, or gay or are weird in unimaginable ways. While searching for his 'Indian Alexander', Chaddha bumps into Vicky Arora (Ayushmann Khurrana). Vicky is the only son of his widowed mother Dolly (Dolly Ahluwalia), who runs a small parlor from their home in Lajpat Nagar. He provides no financial support to her. Dolly wants Vicky to take some responsibility in life as she is tired of supporting his pub visits, expenses with his friends and his expensive fashion tastes. Shweta (Puja Gupta) lives in the neighborhood and has a crush on Vicky. A small brawl in the colony brings Chaddha and Vicky face to face, where Chaddha concludes that Vicky could be the donor he has been looking for. Dolly wants Vicky to manage his Tayaji's (Inderpal Singh) business. Tayaji has shops through which he has retail clothes selling business. But Vicky has dreams to do a proper white-collar job, a dream that his hard-working mother does not support, as she sees no skills in Vicky that can help him get a job. Chaddha finds that Vicky's great grandfather had 19 kids, including 4 pairs of twins. His last child was born at the age of 78. From here on, Chaddha's days and nights are spent convincing Vicky to become a donor until he finally gives in. Chaddha tells Vicky that his patients have a lot of respect for his work, and they give numerous blessings if they are successful in having a child. Chaddha says that Vicky only has to donate the sperm. Any kids born as a result of that are not going to be Vicky's responsibility. Vicky meets Ashima "Tuna" Roy (Yami Gautam) in a bank where he opens a new bank account to deposit money from his mother's beauty parlor business. Vicky then pursues Ashima at the wedding ceremony of his friend. His friend's wife is Ashima's colleague at the bank where she works. Ashima rejects all of Vicky's advances. Her colleagues at the bank advise Ashima to have fun & to at least have a good meeting with Vicky to get to know him better. Vicky is very skeptical of Baldev's plans to help childless couples to conceive using his sperm. Vicky refuses Chaddha to be his sperm donor, but Chaddha pleads that his clinic is on the verge of shutting down and only Vicky can save it. Chaddha then meets Dolly and says that he and Vicky are starting a business together. Chaddha again argues that in ancient times this service was provided by Sadhus and other men who had renounced the world. Vicky finally visits Chaddha at his office and says that he is doing it for pocket money. That day Vicky makes his first donation. Vicky is given a token amount at the time of donation, and the final big payment, every time a couple uses his sperm and gets pregnant. Chaddha gets the sample tested and it comes out to be of top quality. The sperm count is very high and motility is very strong. Chaddha calls his patients and starts using the sperm to inseminate them. Vicky is left wide eyed with all the gifts he receives from successful couples. One couple gifts him a LCD TV worth Rs 60,000. He agrees to keep donating sperm to help more couples to conceive. Vicky quickly becomes very rich. He quickly upgrades his house & his mom's beauty parlor. Slowly Vicky & Ashima come close to each other & eventually Ashima agrees to go out on a date with Vicky. Vicky falls in love with Ashima, a Bengali woman. Ashima tells Vicky that she is a divorcee, but Vicky is completely fine with it. Despite the initial rivalry between Vicky and Ashima's families due to conflicting cultures, they eventually convince their families and get happily married. Vicky's family includes Dolly and his grandmother Biji (Kamlesh Gill). While Ashima's family has father Mr Roy (Jayant Das) and aunt Pishi (Swaroopa Ghosh). In an ironic turn of events, the couple discovers that Ashima is infertile. Both of them get tested, but Vicky does not take the fertility test and is forced to admit to being a sperm donor. Taken aback by her husband's strange career, Ashima leaves for her paternal home. Vicky is heartbroken and cuts all ties with Chaddha. The parlor is soon raided by income tax officers due to their frivolous renovations. Vicky is arrested on suspicion of handling black money but is bailed out by Dr. Chaddha, who reveals his occupation to his family members. Vicky's mother is disgusted and also apologizes to Ashima. Vicky's grandmother and Ashima's father make them understand how Vicky's deed has helped many families bear children and ask them to have a progressive take on this. Chaddha's assistant finds out the list of couples to whom Vicky has donated his sperm. Chaddha calls Vicky and Ashima to an event he has hosted where all families that Vicky helped bear children are present and helps Ashima see how his step helped them find happiness. He then tells them that one child is absent. This little girl lost her parents in an accident. Her grandparents failed to contact Chaddha's clinic and had to send her to an orphanage. Dr. Chaddha suggests the couple adopt a little girl, Diya. Ashima begins to see reason and understands. The couple reunites, adopts the little girl, and Vicky continues to occasionally donate sperm for Chaddha's clinic.