Mandar : He is the quintessential dog. Always in heat, in the scent of anything in a skirt! He has for a role model someone flamboyant and carefree, but then is not him. He comes up with a formula – “Never the best, pursue the rest!” He turns an impressionist when he realizes conquests are not always of the bedding variety. There are things that are more meaningful and everlasting than the phallic fulfillment. The taming ensues and the Hunter becomes the hunted! Through many a trial and tribulation a tale unfolds, enriching and rewarding and always entertaining.
Tripti : She is the girl of the 21st century. An equal in every way to the guy of all ages. She is a sophisticate, an independent, a thinker and a liberal. She is fun, generous, and expansive in her thoughts and very much a non-conformist. The impressionist charms her, with his act but in the process also seems to be affected by her refreshingly open outlook, something that he is not accustomed to. Against his formula he seems to have been landed “the best” on a platter and seems to fall, head-hunted over heels in love!
Dilip : He is the chronicler of events. The sage and savant as opposed to the hunter’s pillaging. He is the voice of sanity and reason which the hunter mocks. He loves shyly, but gives his all with amazing largesse, without a whit for the consequence. He is the brother every man should have. He is the friend every girl should carry in her purse. He is the boy next door that carries your grocery bags to your apartment. He is also the guy no one imitates or listens to. He is the observer of follies of all that is humankind, story teller and reminder that there are the good, the bad and alas the seldom noticed lovely people!
Khsitij : If Don Juan were to be brown he would be it! Silver tongued and outrageous! Brash and incorrigible! Pushing the envelope on all things edgy, he is a natural leader. No wonder our protagonist, hero worships him, albeit for all the wrong reasons. Yet he has the heart made of pure platinum and is worthy of the following! He stands by the oppressed and does not resist or desist from walking the talk. Alas the path he treads is all but lost on the Hunter, or is it?
Jyotsna : She has loved in a time when it meant elopement. She has romanced when cheap gifts was what it embodied. She’s entrapped in the seventies aspiring to be a girl of the next century. She pursues the vicarious attainment of all she couldn’t be! It will be a battle between her will and her mind and the ability to create a place truly her own, creating her space in her time.
Parul : She is sweetness personified. She is innocence bottled. She is earnestness encapsulated. She is all things first loves should be made of. She gives and gives, without demanding or expecting. She is naïve, she is gullible but oh she is in love. She is upbeat despite the disappointments! She refuses to be the consolation prize, a woman standing up for herself and mind all her own.