For the boys - she is the face of gentleness and love - the only stabilizing factor in their lives. She accepts Monty and raises him like her own son. Despite the circumstances, Maria holds the family together. The Fernandes' household falls apart the day Maria learns about her husband Gary's extra marital affair and Monty, his son from another woman. Gary's wife and the mother of David and Monty (we see her in the flashback portion of the film, when the boys are young). Devastated with these turn of events, David and Jenny fight every odd to make ends meet and to provide the best for Poopoo. She is diagnosed with a critical kidney condition. The apple of her parent's eyes, she completes them and is the beacon of happiness in their little family. Aware of the differences between David and his family, she stands by David and respects him, but she also empathizes with Gary and Monty. She is David's pillar of strength and a nurturing mother to Poopoo. Due to the dire financial conditions of the family she has to continue to work. She works at a bakery, but today, she is essentially a homemaker. She anchors him and brings faith and belief back into his life. Jenny is the ray of hope in David's life. When the 'Right to Fight' is announced, he makes it his life's mission to win it to earn respect and to find his rightful place in the world. This yearning for approval and respect leads him to find the needed focus and determination to make it big in the street fighting circuit. He strongly yearns for the acceptance, love of his family. He is active in the world of Underground Street fighting, but he lacks a winner's attitude. He shies away from crowds and he does not have any friends. He pummels all his opponents one by one to find his rightful place in the finals of this mega-event.Ī loner and an alcoholic, Monty struggles hard with his complex existence. When the arrival of the biggest international event in mixed martial arts history is announced in India, David channelizes all his focus and energy in to training hard for this winner-takes-all event. Extremely troubled financial circumstances drive a desperate David to return to the world of street fighting.
Married to Jenny, he works hard to make ends meet and to provide the best for his family. He is Gary's elder son, and has a bitter estranged relationship with his father and younger brother. haunt his present.ĭavid is an ex-fighter turned school teacher. He has now returned home to find that the ghosts of the past still. Due to certain events that transpired, he was sentenced to 10 long years in prison.
A former alcoholic and street-fighter, he was once well-known in the underground street fighting nexus in Bombay.