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THE URBAN NAXAL

THE URBAN NAXAL
By Sunil R Pappu

GENRE: Thriller, Drama
LOGLINE:

A civil engineering professor secretly plots to blow up sensitive government sites, to become a top Naxal recruit in the city.

 

SYNOPSIS:

How does a former child soldier take revenge on his captors?

Usendi has spent 30 years building a normal life and family with tenure as a university professor. His wife Radhika and his teenage kids are blissfully unaware of his past. Ironically, this becomes the perfect cover for him to be re-inducted by his former Naxal captor Vasu.

Usendi leads their mission to blow up the Prime Minister’s rally!

With the war on Naxals shifting from the forests to the city, the government mounts a ruthless crackdown on all suspected left-wing extremist activities. The Intelligence Bureau plants Sonu, an undercover agent, inside the University to infiltrate a student group with suspected ties to the Naxal extremists. Prof. Usendi with no experience in the Naxal world is chased down by right-wing vigilantes and IB agents as he tries to protect his family and hide his past from them.

Will Usendi get his ultimate revenge on the Naxal commander?

EPISODE STRUCTURE: The government sees Naxals as the gravest threat to the country as it deploys its largest counter-insurgency operation in history. Usendi has to build trust with his Naxal handler, taking on even greater risks every week, unaware of an undercover IB agent in his research team while trying to keep his covert activities hidden from his family. With each week, his chances of returning to a normal life are slowly fading as he is pushed deeper into the Naxal world – driven away from the city, thrown in a prison cell to fight for his life and banished to the forest - to re-emerge as the Most Wanted Naxal.

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