Synopsis-1

Ravi, a bastard son who left home and his lone mother owing to obvious family hatred turns a successful theatre artist. He comes home after thirty years. Reminiscence, repentance, suffering, reformation, empathy all follow. But ! The mother is on her deathbed, in coma. In a frenzy to save her he rushes to a laboratory taking her cancerous womb, forgets it in a bar on the way and loses it. This personal tragedy is set against the background of a Special Economic Zone, which will leave thousands of people miserable- the numbness of society, the loss of womb signifying the loss of all maternal affection and feelings. Payal, Ravi's girlfriend rushes to his rescue; people launch strikes against the SEZ. Will either of them succeed?

Synopsis-2

Ravi returns home on vacation from his touring troupe. It is his home-coming after long thirty years. Payal, a member of his troupe wants to join him on the trip home and meet his mother but he won't take her this time.
He reaches home on time to care for his dying mother. The doctor, who happens to be his auntie very fond of Ravi, relates the angst of the mother her deep affection and respect for the son, her regrets about the events that led to Ravi's leaving home. His mind is crowded with montages of childhood moments basked in the loving care and pampering of his mother.
He dreams and longs for things beyond him: that his mother will wake up from her coma that she will shower her love upon him; that he could unite her with 'Uncle' and see the ultimate joy. With this empathy, he forgives and befriends 'Uncle' the silent lover of Ravi's unwed mother, whom he detested until a while back.
These dreams are interpolated with images of broken relations and violence: the burial urn of Ravi's father to whom mother has revengefully denied proper rites so that his sins will not be absolved for heaven; the mindless aggression of a Special Economic Zone on the lives of hapless people; contrived strikes against the SEZ; an unwed mother who is the lead player of the strike; her baby boy inhumanely tied to the poles of the strikers' shanty…
To realize his dreams of saving mother, Ravi dares the hazards of a hartal (protest) day to take her womb to a laboratory for examinations. But alas! He misplaces it in a wayside bar and loses it forever.
An individual trauma is set in a locale (SEZ and strikes against it) that shares all the perils of those individuals. The personal and the social dramas reciprocate each other. Like Ravi, the people are orphaned by the multiple organ failure of the motherland. It is the numbness of a nation or world at large. This has special relevance in a nation that projects itself as 'motherland' whereas most nations nurse a paternal image of home country.
Ravi loses his mother his dreams go awry. The people continue their strike, unsure of its results.
The tragedy consummates in the culpable negligence of Ravi who misplaces mother's womb in a bar culpability shared by the society too, for its negligences.

Review

'My Mother's Laptop' is a groundbreaking exploration into the dichotomies of the human mind. Through hypnotic time drifts 'Laptop' is an unprecedented blend of filial affections, youthful excesses, irreverent lapses, guilt feelings and conditioned emotions.
Lover, son, artist, vagabond, Ravi is throughout the movie, struggling to find right balance of relations. This scion of non-marital relations is but home to conventional Keralite family ties. The cozy warmth of mother's laptop during his babyhood days is counterpoised with the scorching heat of disturbed relations and broken communications of adult life. Finally he finds the snug warmth, not in his laptop computer which both crashes and sinks, but right back in a womblike embrace.
Ravi's mother is an unwed mother who avenges herself by denying posthumous rituals to the father of her son. She keeps his ashes in an urn without performing rites so that he does not get access to heaven. She is beloved by another man (though she never seems to return it) whom Ravi detests at first, but empathisizes later. Ravi wants to make amends for love denied, and would even go to the extend of uniting the two. Will he get consent of Time is the question that looks stark at everybody.
Payal, an orphaned girl in the drama troop to which Ravi belongs is all love for him. She too nurses attachment to conventional relationships. She wants to join Ravi when he goes home; she addresses his mother as her mother too she offers to rush to him when she hears that his mother is sick despite his repeated refusals she decides herself to go to him with support she even scolds him for nursing unhealthy and unwanted guilt feelings. At once she is his lover, friend, mother, guide and what not.
With love of different sorts diffused around, the lady, her lover, her son, his love… all are still forlorn, desolate. These archetypal tussles are realized with a new capacity for emotion and ideas. Meanwhile there is no element of hackneyed high drama. The amorphous dream logic upon which the film is built, engages the spectators during the course of the film it also leaves residual imprints on their minds even after they leave the theatres. The inescapability of human destiny is surmounted by a willing acquiescence to the pristine.
The film is a distilled and insightfully depicted contemplation on the nature of connections, longings, regrets, and forgiveness. Made up of a series of elliptical, self-contained episodes of everyday life that collectively reveal concurrent disintegration and building up of relationships, the film is also a brooding of human memory in its lucid awareness of past life.