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About  Divorce: Not Between Husband and Wife  (2005)

An 8-year-old kid, Pranav, is the only son of a rich couple Sidharth
and Renuka. Sidharth works for a Multinational Company as an officer
whose job requires a lot of traveling. In a way, Sidharth is also
obsessed with his job and, therefore, is unable to give any time to his
child and wife. Renuka, on the other hand, is a highly skilled and a
dedicated Media correspondent working for a private channel. She also
faces the same problem of giving time to her child and husband. They
are running with the mechanized professional objectives like any other
conventional human beings of the contemporary age. The end result is
that Pranav misses out on his parents and becomes a victim of
suppressed emotions. Meanwhile, Pranav gains the friendship of his
neighbor, Jackie, a loner. An advocate by profession, Jackie is also a
hardcore alcoholic with a very cool and unconventional attitude towards
life. This growing intimacy between the two of them creates insecurity
in the minds of Sidharth and Renuka, who try various means to deviate
Pranav, but their attempts make Pranav more intimate to Jackie. During
one of Jackie's court sessions, Pranav accompanies Jackie to watch the
proceedings. The case is about a divorce between a husband and a wife.
Pranav asks the meaning for the word divorce, and Jackie explains
that it is a separation between two people who do not like each other.
For the first time, Pranav asks whether he can get divorced from his
parents since he does not like them. Though Pranav did not mean what he
said, Jackie is shocked and convinces Pranav against it. In another
incident that follows, Shyam, a drug addict and a resident of the
apartment building in which Pranav resides, commits suicide due to a
failed relationship. Pranav understands from a depressed old man that
suicide is freedom from all worries. These incidents create an
indelible mark in the mind of Pranav, who thereafter threatens Jackie
that he would commit suicide if he was not getting a divorce from his
parents. Jackie conveys the seriousness to his parents. Sidharth and
Renuka plan come home early in turns, but they still do not address the
actual problems of Pranav, who wants to share a lot with his parents.
But as a result of the professional demands, Sidharth and Renuka start
quarreling with each other for not sticking on to their plan. Now
Pranav decides to campaign for the divorce with all his heart. Jackie
is unable to convince Pranav this time and agrees to take up the case
on Pranav's behalf for granting the separation. As an outcome the Judge
instructs the government to devise a new penal code to handle the case
where the kid himself can file a complaint against his parents. The new
penal code is created, and the final verdict by the Judge becomes the
climax of the film.