Mainak Bhaumik’s film Happy Pill, which is streaming on Hoichoi now, is about the extraordinary journey of an ordinary man who creates a cure for sadness, and transforms lives. The film follows Siddhartha (Ritwick Chakraborty), a brilliant medical college student who drops out due to financial reasons. He runs a rundown sweet shop, but he is frustrated since he feels that he cannot properly look after his ailing mother and a troubled unmarried sister. So he decides to create a happy pill as a solution to all their problems. The characters that play a significant role in his journey of happiness are Rini (Parno Mittrah), Pochada and Indrani.

His sister is under-confident about her complexion and looks, and is engaged to a guy who puts her down, yet she feels she needs to make the marriage happen. Pochada (Mir), Siddhartha’s best friend, is a failing businessman who constantly gets picked on by his mother-in-law and wife who think he’s a loser. Indrani (Sohini Sarkar) is a struggling journalist, who gets bullied by her boss and doesn’t have the self-confidence to stand up to her.

“We grow up, we go to school, college, work hard, do well. Why do we do all this? To be happy. But somewhere in the hectic process of trying to be happy, we get so caught up in life’s problems and forget the main reason why we were striving so hard in the first place. So I had made Happy Pill, a ‘what if’ film exploring the fantasy that what if someone created a medicine for happiness that could instantly make all of us happy? Just like when we have a fever or backache we pop a paracetamol. So when life’s problems have us feeling down-in-the-dumps, it would be great if such a thing as a happy pill existed that would magically make us happy when we pop it,” said Mainak.