Aashayein is the story of Rahul a gambler. He collapses down just after his long-time girlfriend Nafisa accepts his marriage proposal. Later on medical check-up it is revealed that Rahul has got Lung Cancer presumably by his smoking habits and that he has got only 3 more months to live. Nafisa asks Rahul to marry her but Rahul rejects. Later Rahul finds a news about a rehabilitation centre for persons with such incurable diseases. Rahul silently runs away from his girlfriend leaving back most of the money he earned for her. Once Rahul gets into the centre he meets several people like Parthasarthi who speaks with the help of a metal tube because of his cancer Madhu who was a former Prostitute and an AIDS patient now Padma a teenage girl with lot of dreams but no life to fulfil them she cant even walk properly Govinda a comic loving kid who is said to have certain higher capabilities and everybody treats him as a messenger of God.