CHAPTER 1

Sidharth Shukla is a 39-year-old businessman who is successful, very wealthy, upper class and a complete workaholic. He heads a business empire started by his now deceased father. He is well known as a quiet, brooding man with temper issues and of course a serial dater. And a drinker and a smoker. He's never been in any serious relationship. Currently in a phase of life where he feels jaded. He has had many women. Some are even on speed dial and he's not ashamed of it. Fulfillment of needs without entanglement of emotions or feelings is what he goes for. He has a slightly complicated relationship with his mother and his family which is very clannish. He is protective about family but not blind to their faults. Despite being born with a silver spoon he has had to lead his life not on his terms but on his family's. Not settling down and continuing to womanise is his way of rebelling against his mother and family.

Shehnaaz Siddiqui is a young adult, a Kashmiri Muslim by birth and an orphan. She has been brought up by parents' Hindu family friends after they died in a car crash. However, there has been a gradual estrangement between them. She is under no illusion that she truly is alone in this world and has no one she can depend on. She struggles with a fragile mental health and anxiety because of which she is under medication. She is a student and tries to put up a strong exterior with an 'I-give-a-fuck' attitude but in reality is vulnerable and subconsciously looking for love, security and acceptance. She is spiritual but not religious. However, she never shies away from her identity as a young progressive Muslim woman. Her adoptive family is also a rich upper class business family and acquaintances of the Shuklas. Circumstances bring Sidharth and Shehnaaz together creating an explosion in each other's lives. But theirs is a cosmic connection. Like 2 stars aligning, strung along by an invisible thread tying them together forever.