 This gesture, in turn, eventually secures her the landlady's mentorship, first in music and then in dance.Vanaja excels at these art forms and seems to be on a steadily ascending path until the arrival of Shekhar (Karan Singh), the landlady's 23-year-old son, from the United States.Shekhar is a handsome, muscular young man who is running for an office in the local government.