Despite its comedic undertones, Karwaan handles profound existential themes with a remarkably light touch:
Avinash (played by Dulquer Salmaan) is a repressed corporate worker stuck in a soul-crushing IT job in Bengaluru. He harbors deep-seated resentment toward his estranged father, who never supported his passion for photography. When his father dies in a road accident, Avinash's distant world is shattered further when he receives the wrong corpse—that of an elderly woman from Kochi.
