FRAGMENTS - THE SEGMENTS

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The Chief Minister's wife receives a call from a stranger claiming himself to be Kamal Hassan, he requests to be connected to the chief minister. The excited wife quickly asks her husband to come on line, and he does. The scene quickly turns dark as the caller reveals he's not Kamal Hassan but a stranger who knows the Chief Minister is getting prepared to meet some foreigners secretly to make a deal, the stranger demands the meeting be postponed and the chief minister head to the police HQ with ATS Head Officer and Police Chief. The caller further disconnects and contacts the chief minister in the Police HQ the moment he steps inside the building. The cyber tries tracking the all but is unsuccessful as the caller have taken all preliminary precautions. The caller demands three case files be summoned and also the officers who investigated it. As per the case number provided by the caller, the officers set out to get the files and the related officers as the caller had given them 3 hours time. The caller still unknown to the police, is an inmate in the local central prison. He has been calling from a dark cell all this while. He involves in various activities during the 3 hours he'd given the police. At the end of 3 hours, he rings the HQ, but then the chief minister responds with a different tone, he tells the caller that there is no need for the state and the police to obey his orders and therefore the caller's demands are rejected. The callers responds saying he has planted no RDX or explosions but what he has got to tell will not be good hearing. When the Police chief retreats saying the caller to proceed, at which the caller reveals that the police's chief's kid is eating an ice-cream standing on the second floor of RP School, with a sniper aimed at her fore-head. The chief minister reacts angrily on this, to which the caller responds saying, to check CM's son's bag's second column, it holds a USB and tiny packet of cocaine. The caller further reveals that CM's gardener is a drug peddler who provides CM's son with stuff. Caller criticize the fact that the CM makes visits to foreign countries to study the problems of citizens living abroad, he point out CM's failure to lead his family right and the state he rules, he apologizes for speaking so openly about CM in the presence of his subordinates and others. The officers that were to be summoned surprisingly turn up at the HQ. The caller asks the CM to dismiss all these officers as they're all inefficient and anti-socialists who covered up the murders of a 100 people. Soon the caller calls again, and ask the CM and police chief to head to port. As they head towards port, the caller tells them a story about how 10yrs ago a group of businessman burned down his village, despite his strenuous effect to stop it, to start a large food processing unit. As they reach the port, the caller asks them to board a tug-boat and head towards another tug-boat awaiting them in the middle of the sea. Climbing on-board, a satellite phone, planted in the ship, rings. The caller asks them to open the cell door, and as they did, they found four men who had their head covered in black cloth, their feet and hands bound, the caller demands them be killed but the CM refuse and assures to punish them judicially. What was done in the last ten years, the caller asks them to which they be speechless. The caller orders them to proceed with the kill, and also puts forward another demand that the CM shoot and kill the four people. As the chief minister shoots each of them, the caller incant the CM swear-in pledge. The four are revealed to be two business partners and former ministers who burned the village. The CM returns to his office, the caller makes one-last call saying CM did a good job and thanks the CM. CM finds the video footage of his murder in his personal mail and covers up the case. The next morning the caller is hanged in prison and his jail-mate is revealed as the real guy who'd lost his family and village. The caller had the number '369' on his prison cloth and his hand carried a tattoo that read, "Kanvar Hassan"

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