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Dansh • Movie Preview |
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Kay Kay Menon, Sonali Kulkarni, Aditya Srivastava |
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Talking Pictures
Kanika Verma
Fazal Qureshi
Nida Fazli
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Very few of us
would imagine that nature can lay the foundation for
terrorism.
The history of Mizoram, a state in the north-eastern
region of India illustrates this strange occurrence. Every
fifty years the bamboo jungles of Mizoram bloom into a
rich harvest of flowers. The smell of these flowers causes
a battalion of rats to attack, and with the flowers they
destroy the entire crop, inevitably causing a famine. The
year 1956 was the last time this episode occurred in
Mizoram, which was then a part of the state of Assam.
The people of Mizoram felt that the Indian government had
failed them as a nation. Thus started a struggle for
independence. They succeeded in overthrowing the Indian
government to establish their own, but the Indian army
retaliated and regained power. The battle between the
Indian forces and MNF (Mizo National Front) raged on for
thirty years and finally in 1986, a peace treaty between
the two was signed.
Our story begins on the day the peace treaty was signed.
Mathew (Kay Kay) is the MNF spokesman, an architect of the
peace treaty. Maria (Sonali Kulkarni), his wife, is a
victim of the atrocities inflicted by the Indian army in
the past. Inspite of being tortured by them, Maria still
believed that peace would put an end to all the killing.
Havala is another member of MNF who is driven to the point
of suicide by his agony over the peace treaty. Maria is
greatly affected by his death.
Old wounds were just beginning to resurface, when Dr John
Sanga (Aditya Srivastava) enters their world. The Doctor
has seen his share of misery in the assassination of his
father, former DIG of Mizoram at the hands of MNF.
Following this, the Doctor moves to Mumbai to start life
afresh. The doctor doesn't blame anyone for his father's
brutal death or his exile from Mizoram, and leaves Mathew
greatly inspired and touched, and in total awe of his
ability to not hold on to the past. Mathew invites the
doctor to spend the night at his house, and after a few
drinks the Doctor falls asleep there.
Treading on the footsteps of a fateful past, life throws
new questions at our protagonists. Maria feels that the
Doctor is the man who had raped her in the army camp. She
tortures the Doctor, trying to make him confess. The
Doctor claims to be innocent but Maria trusts her
instincts too well. She may have been blindfolded while
being raped, but in her gut, she still believes that this
is her rapist. Maria wants Mathew to kill the doctor.
Mathew is confused, and finds it hard to choose between
the Doctor and his wife.
The story revolves around this night of perplexity. Is
Maria right in trusting her instincts? Is the Doctor
innocent? Will Mathew's love for his wife lure him to a
decision that may not be right? Will the new attempt for
peace loose its first battle to sweet revenge? |
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