The story runs around a retired Army officer who did not get to fight the Kargil war. He now lives with his wife in an upscale, gated community spending most of his time playing war video games. The hero suffers from hypnagogia, a rare medical disorder. He starts dreaming and believes that his dreams are real. The filmmaker genuinely attempts to give us a peek into the world of a man who can't tell a dream from reality.

 

There is a story running in his dream and another in his real life. In a particular stage he fails to see the demarcation and these subconscious thoughts play havoc in his life and the people around him. Dream is this journey into the mind of the protagonist. This is a Medical thriller film.

 

He's pessimistic and is convinced that he will die at 52 and wants to do something really thrilling before he dies. He lives in a plush gated community with his wife. A compulsive thrill seeker, he smokes pot, has an AK-47 tattoo, loves Jim Morrison, and fancies his teenaged neighbor. His biggest regret in life is that he's never used a gun in all his life and that he might die without ever using it so he derives substitute gratification from playing combat video games.  

 

It is known that the Telugu audience has a tendency to say great things about Hollywood psychological thrillers though they partly understand. It is an affinity towards the foreign stuff. Similarly if someone from native land attempts, they mock at him with a preconceived notion that our minds cannot match with that of abroad. But ‘Dream’ is a film that should be patted. It has film festival material in it.