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Madras Cafe
Madras Cafe is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language political action thriller film directed by Shoojit Sircar and produced by John Abraham and Ronnie Lahiri under the banners JA Entertainment and Rising Sun Films. The film stars John Abraham, Nargis Fakhri and Raashii Khanna (in her film debut) in the lead roles. The film is set in the late 1980s and early 1990s, during the time of Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war and assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The film revolves around an Indian soldier who is appointed by the intelligence agency R&AW to head covert operations in Jaffna shortly after Indian peace-keeping force was forced to withdraw.
Madras Cafe was released on 23 August 2013, to positive reviews from critics. The film was declared as an above average grosser at the box office. The film won the National Film Award for Best Audiography for Nihar Ranjan Samal and Bishwadeep Chatterjee at the 61st National Film Awards.
The plot opens in Jaffna, where a bus full of passengers is stopped by armed men and all are massacred.
A man in Kasauli, revealed to be Vikram Singh sees on TV that the Sri Lankan President has been killed by a suicide bomber. In a nearby church he confesses to Priest, "Our Prime Minister could have been saved from the conspiracy." and Vikram starts narrating his story to the priest.
The film then moves five years back, when the continuous battle between the Sri Lankan military forces and Tamil militant groups had reached a dangerous level. The Tamil youth have taken weapons and joined the Liberation Tamil Front (LTF) leader Anna Bhaskaran (a character based on the real-life LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran). The Indian Prime Minister (Sanjay Gurubaxani) decides to sign a peace accord with the Sri Lankan Government. However, Anna refuses to accept the accord, and the Indian Peacekeeping Forces are forced to withdraw from the island. Robin Dutt, aka RD, the R&AW chief, calls upon his best man, Maj. Vikram Singh.
After meeting and discussing the strategy with RD and his deputy Swaroop (Avijit Dutt), Vikram travels to Sri Lanka and meets a war correspondent, Jaya Sahni. After reporting to his senior Balakrishnan (based on real-life person K V Unnikrishnan), he tries to find someone who may help to find Shri, the only man who can withstand and oppose Anna. Vikram manages to visit Shri and promises Shri to help him rise against Anna by providing him with arms. However, the deal goes terribly wrong, and one of Vikram's associates is killed in a surprise attack by LTF, who do away with the weapons consignment.
Meanwhile, Vikram is kidnapped by LTF. The Indian government sends forces and rescues Vikram. Balakrishnan tells him to leave Sri Lanka as he is on the hit list of both camps. Vikram feels suspicious about Balakrishnan. He calls SP, one of his associates, and tells him to report all activities of Balakrishnan . Vikram, posing as a war correspondent, meets Mallayya (based on real-life LTTE member Gopalaswamy Mahendraraja), second-in-command of Anna, and persuades him to meet RD in Colombo. RD instigates Mallaya to stand up as the only champion of his people, thus dividing the LTF in two.
Indian forces then launch a massive attack on the LTF base camp, However, Anna survives and later kills Malaya and Shri. In the light of the resurfaced violence, the Indian Prime Minister resigns. Some months later, SP later tracks some discussion of Anna over the phone and tells Balakrishnan about this, but Bala tells him to ignore them, causing SP to believe that Balakrishnan might be a mole. He escapes with the intercepts and files of the case. Vikram receives a call from SP, who tells him to meet him. After meeting with SP, Vikram comes home to find Ruby, his wife, murdered. Vikram nabs Vasu from a theatre and asks him what he knows. Vasu tells him that indeed Balakrishnan was a leak, and he was helping him and Reed. Vikram calls Jaya and requests for help from her sources.
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Madras Cafe
Madras Cafe is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language political action thriller film directed by Shoojit Sircar and produced by John Abraham and Ronnie Lahiri under the banners JA Entertainment and Rising Sun Films. The film stars John Abraham, Nargis Fakhri and Raashii Khanna (in her film debut) in the lead roles. The film is set in the late 1980s and early 1990s, during the time of Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war and assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The film revolves around an Indian soldier who is appointed by the intelligence agency R&AW to head covert operations in Jaffna shortly after Indian peace-keeping force was forced to withdraw.
Madras Cafe was released on 23 August 2013, to positive reviews from critics. The film was declared as an above average grosser at the box office. The film won the National Film Award for Best Audiography for Nihar Ranjan Samal and Bishwadeep Chatterjee at the 61st National Film Awards.
The plot opens in Jaffna, where a bus full of passengers is stopped by armed men and all are massacred.
A man in Kasauli, revealed to be Vikram Singh sees on TV that the Sri Lankan President has been killed by a suicide bomber. In a nearby church he confesses to Priest, "Our Prime Minister could have been saved from the conspiracy." and Vikram starts narrating his story to the priest.
The film then moves five years back, when the continuous battle between the Sri Lankan military forces and Tamil militant groups had reached a dangerous level. The Tamil youth have taken weapons and joined the Liberation Tamil Front (LTF) leader Anna Bhaskaran (a character based on the real-life LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran). The Indian Prime Minister (Sanjay Gurubaxani) decides to sign a peace accord with the Sri Lankan Government. However, Anna refuses to accept the accord, and the Indian Peacekeeping Forces are forced to withdraw from the island. Robin Dutt, aka RD, the R&AW chief, calls upon his best man, Maj. Vikram Singh.
After meeting and discussing the strategy with RD and his deputy Swaroop (Avijit Dutt), Vikram travels to Sri Lanka and meets a war correspondent, Jaya Sahni. After reporting to his senior Balakrishnan (based on real-life person K V Unnikrishnan), he tries to find someone who may help to find Shri, the only man who can withstand and oppose Anna. Vikram manages to visit Shri and promises Shri to help him rise against Anna by providing him with arms. However, the deal goes terribly wrong, and one of Vikram's associates is killed in a surprise attack by LTF, who do away with the weapons consignment.
Meanwhile, Vikram is kidnapped by LTF. The Indian government sends forces and rescues Vikram. Balakrishnan tells him to leave Sri Lanka as he is on the hit list of both camps. Vikram feels suspicious about Balakrishnan. He calls SP, one of his associates, and tells him to report all activities of Balakrishnan . Vikram, posing as a war correspondent, meets Mallayya (based on real-life LTTE member Gopalaswamy Mahendraraja), second-in-command of Anna, and persuades him to meet RD in Colombo. RD instigates Mallaya to stand up as the only champion of his people, thus dividing the LTF in two.
Indian forces then launch a massive attack on the LTF base camp, However, Anna survives and later kills Malaya and Shri. In the light of the resurfaced violence, the Indian Prime Minister resigns. Some months later, SP later tracks some discussion of Anna over the phone and tells Balakrishnan about this, but Bala tells him to ignore them, causing SP to believe that Balakrishnan might be a mole. He escapes with the intercepts and files of the case. Vikram receives a call from SP, who tells him to meet him. After meeting with SP, Vikram comes home to find Ruby, his wife, murdered. Vikram nabs Vasu from a theatre and asks him what he knows. Vasu tells him that indeed Balakrishnan was a leak, and he was helping him and Reed. Vikram calls Jaya and requests for help from her sources.