Just when you feel that the director has pulled out all stops and you have sorted out all the conundrums, the film shifts to a different plane. There is a black cat and a black spider, both important symbols in case you want to psychoanalyse the film later. Mehak's traumatised mind plays tricks on her and the director plays tricks on our mind. Rest of the film plays out in the claustrophobic confines of this apartment, whose former tenant, a stewardess named Jiah, has mysteriously vanished into thin air. When the therapy makes little progress, Shaan rents out an apartment and moves her there to recover. After the opening credits, we see that Mehak has become a nervous wreck consequent to the rape and is being administered Virtual Reality therapy to cure her of Agoraphobia (fear of open spaces).
The cabbie takes her to a secluded spot and rapes her. She spurns the offer and continues in the taxi. On the way Shaan gets down and invites her to spend the night with him. She then leaves the party in a taxi with her best friend, Shaan.
Mehak Deo (Radhika Apte) is a painter and is narrating a creepily uncomfortable joke to her male friends at a party: An old man has been ogling at her because her face resembles his bitch that was killed in a car accident, eerily on the same day when Mehak was born. What follows next is arguably one of the most significant prologues in Hindi Cinema miss this and you won't get the essence of the film. That Phobia is not everyone's cup of tea is established in the opening frame itself with this intriguing quote of Franz Kafka: A cage went in search of a bird.