- Prime leader of a campaign against a big government project is killed in what appears to be a road accident. An IAS officer is ordered to probe the incident and the veils of falsehood begin to drop.
- The bustling Indian city of Bharat Nagar has an upcoming infrastructure project, backed by the ruling political party, that promises to turn the city into India's grandest metropolis, its very own 'Shanghai'. The chief minister of the state is a woman, who has a coalition government, back by the Morcha party. The CM is leading the development of IBP (Indira Business Park) & is offering it as a solution to poverty & unemployment in the city.
A shocking and disturbing road accident leaves a socialist professor/political activist Dr. Ahmedi (Prosenjit Chatterjee) in critical condition. Ahmedi's adherent Shalini (Kalki Koechlin) believes it to be a premeditated murder. Shalini had prior information about a threat to Ahmedi's life from her maid, who advises Shalini to ask Ahmedi to skip town.
Ahmedi was going to deliver a speech in Bharat Nagar to speak openly against the proposed development of Indira Business Park in Bharat Nagar, which in his view was nothing but a land grab in a socialist garb. This pitted him directly against the political establishment of the state. Ahmedi is brutally mowed down by a lorry after his public meeting, in front of a huge crowd and in front of the police. Shalini is distraught.
Ahemdi's wife Aruna arrives from Delhi & promptly declares to the media that her husband was attacked by Govt officials who wanted to silence him from speaking against IBP. She demands a CBI investigation. The state Government moves quickly & install high-ranking bureaucrat T.A Krishnan (Abhay Deol) for damage control and investigation.
Krishnan constitutes a public hearing & calls the police officer in charge. He reveals that he had asked for extra force for crowd control, prior to Ahmedi's accident. His senior says that the force was not provided as there was VIP movement in the city. Plus, Ahmedi had no permission for a public gathering that night. Shalini loses her cool & alleges that the police cleared the crowd to make way for the lorry, which mowed down Ahmedi.
The Lorry that mowed down Ahmedi was later impounded & the driver arrested. The Lorry had a local goon, Pakya, sitting at the back & he was seen by Jogi's assistant on the night of the accident. However, Pakya had jumped off the Lorry before it was impounded by the police.
A Videographer/pornographer Joginder Parmar (Emraan Hashmi) claims to have documented proof on the mishap that will bring the government down. Jogi was making a video at the venue on the night Ahemdi was mowed down. Shalini asks for the footage, but Jogi takes her to his office & claims that he has a high ranking Govt minister on tape, planning the entire attack on Ahmedi. He asks for the price that Shalini is willing to pay for the tape. The same night Jogi's boss is found dead & Jogi suspects its because he knew about the tape & had talked to someone about it.
TA Krishnan continues to investigate. He finds that the police commissioner of the city had instructed the Station office to destroy the station diary page that listed the arrest of the driver of the Lorry. Krishnan's seniors pressurize him to close the investigation by blaming the whole thing on the police office on duty that night, for failure to crowd control.
Shalini continues to work with Jogi at his studio, trying to identify the people involved in the conspiracy. Thats when Jogi's assistant recognizes & points out Pakya to Shalini & Jogi. Examining the footage from the night of the accident Shalini & Jogi establish that the entire crowd that night was made up of goons of the Morcha party, controlled by the chief minister of the state. Shalini submits the evidence to Krishnan, who issues summons to all the folks of the Morcha party identified in the crowd that night. Krishnan is attacked at his home by hoodlums who throw flaming bricks through his window. Jogi's office is attacked as well, but Jogi & Shalini escape.
The Morcha party engulfs the town into riots & the Chief Minister responds by suspending the inquiry led by TA Krishnan & by turning over the investigation to Crime Branch. Pakya turns up dead. Shalini's maid calls her & reveals that she is the wife of the lorry driver who mowed down Ahmedi. She is afraid that after Pakya, Morcha party goons will murder her husband as well.
Talking to the lorry driver, Jogi realizes that he was taping a high up Morcha party leader, when Pakya & the lorry driver had come to meet him. Jogi & his boss were asked to leave the room, but he had left the camera on, which recorded the entire conversation where the Morcha party leader gave instructions to Pakya to kill Ahmedi. He also realizes that this video was backed up in a hard disk in his studio.
Jogi retrieves the video at a great risk to his life & shows it to Krishnan. The video reveals that the order to kill Ahmedi came to the Morcha party high-ups from the Chief Minister herself. Krishnan has been offered a fat government job in Switzerland by the chief minister & he ponders his options. He provides the evidence to the Home minister of the central government. This brings down the chief minister & a criminal investigation is launched against her. Ahmedi dies in hospital. His wife rides the sympathy vote to become the next chief minister of the state & continues with the IBP project.
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