Khoya Khoya Chand is a film about two young people afloat in the Bollywood film industry of the wild 1950's. It is the tumultuous love story of an actress Nikhat (Soha Ali Khan) and a writer-director Zafar (Shiney Ahuja) based in the wild and exhilarating era of the 1950s-60s the Golden Age of the Hindi film industry. This film is a tribute to those wondrous times and people as well as an accolade to their inspirational lives.
A magical world people with huge talents oversized egos beautiful and ugly individuals and the tantalizing lure of stardom. A world of glittering dreams and harsh realities golden yet cruel. This world comes to life with an excellent ensemble of actors who in their varied roles create a colourful backdrop of the film industry, from awe-inspiring superstars and feisty studio-owners to fashionable divas with scandalous stories - this film has them all and more!
Set against the compelling magnetism of this addictive world is the story of Nikhat the young girl who goes from being a fledging extra to a starlet to a great heroine and Zafar through whom we see the triumphs and travails of a writer-director of the 1950's. The story of a volatile love that they can neither live with nor without! And the story of the difficult and often heartbreaking choices they have to make!