saw aamir on sunday.

noiseless-publicity-but-surprisingly-takes-away-the-standing-ovation types..

rajiv khandelwal shows the maturity to shoulder something serious.. director rajkumar gupta does a good job for utv pictures..

a young ‘muslim’ doctor  - aamir returns from uk , only to find that none from his family has come to receive him at the airport. his luggage is forced into a cab by unidentified people

and they force upon him a mobile phone, where someone keeps calling to instruct what to do next. he is told that his family is abducted and he has to do some work for his ‘kaum’ (muslim community) before they can be released…

hassled by sudden turn of events, loss of luggage and passport, he has no option but to follow them…

he is made to visit some of the most shady and poverty ridden dark by lanes of bhendi bazaar and around, and meet very dirty slum-like people who lead him to one another with minimal clues.

what we get to see all along is, slums, habitat on water pipe along the railways line,

butchers cutting meat out in open, chawl like structures where men women and kids live in unthinkable conditions.. third grade lodges where women help terrorism activities alongwith their mainstream illegal activities… secretive landline telephones have codes for often dialed numbers in karachi …

aamir gets hassled and frustrated too… this unidentified voice on phone keeps hammering on him, that this is how all muslims in india live, they arent given any opportunities/equal things  here and hence we have to take revenge..

finally after meeting a local ‘khanbhai’, he gets a suitcase to deliver to someone… he finds it has a lot of money, and the caller tells him all the money comes from people of the ‘kaum’ world over who believe in the cause,  but no one ready to answer his whys n whos.. when he tries to deliver it to the told people, in another unexpected turn of events, some goons rob him of it. helpless, but angry this time he fights and gets it back… which is a first sign of  how he has turned to violence out of frustration…

then the voice on phone asks him to get into a BEST public bus which is going towards andheri station. andheri station is one of the most crowded as we all know. inside the bus he calls aamir again for the last instruction this time – keep suitcase under the seat, get down and leave….

that’s when it strikes to aamir that the suitcase has a bomb n not money like he had seen. those goons were a part of the plan who made him believe he got the same money suitcase back, but had actually exchanged it….

he gets angry and shouts at the unidentified man on phone, who all the time keeps explaining him that as a muslim he has to do something like this, for his brethren…

the bus stops at a signal, and a distraught aamir, standing on the road looks desperately at the digital lcd display on the signal which is going 54..53..52 etc perfectly coinciding with the seconds left for the explosion… another look at the kids, women in the bus, which has lot of muslim people too unlike the ‘protectors of the kaum’ claim… and he is convinced what he is going to do…

he aggressively jumps inside the overcrowded bus tearing apart the crowd that clung to the  door, and pulls the suitcase and runs out… sees a lane with a sign “mmrda – road blocked ahead” … runs in that empty lane yelling at the municipality workers to get out, and stands there alone with the suitcase in his hand… with a calm smile for the first time now, he looks at the signal display again, it goes 3..2..1.. the big b..

the word aamir – stands for a leader.