Storyline:
On July 11, 2006, a series of seven bomb blasts took place over a period of 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai (formerly Bombay).
Nikhil Agarwal (R. Madhavan) works at an international software firm and is a conscious citizen, who believes in saving fossil fuels and the environment, and thus prefers to commute by local trains. On the evening of 11 July 2006 he boards the train at the usual hour of 6:00 p.m. for his hour long journey. 24 minutes later, the first class compartment is shattered by the first violent bomb explosion. Interestingly, he was unwillingly dragged into the second class compartment by an irritating guy who is trying to sell him a scheme, while his friend politely refused and preferred to go into first class. Madhavan's friend eventually loses his hand in the blast, while the unwilling move of going into the second class saves him.
Suresh (Kay Kay Menon), a Hindu , returning home after an unsavoury experience with a money lender, boards a train at 6:10 p.m. in the second class compartment. At 6:25 p.m., the first class compartment is blown apart by the second powerful blast.
Constable Tukaram Patil (Paresh Rawal), a seasoned cop due for retirement in a week, has never fired a single round in his career and uses humour to battle his personal failures. He is paired with Sunil Kadam (Vijay Maurya) on a patrol routine. Kadam has just begun his career with the police department and has a constant feeling of being an insignificant part of the system. The blasts lead to the cancellation of Kadam's honeymoon programme and puts added stress on the two. However, the corruption of the system and the mere façade of a stringent vigil are brought to the fore through several of their experiences which lead to Kadam's rising anger and frustration.
Thomas (Irfan Khan), a roadside coffee vendor, who roams the streets of Mumbai astride his bicycle at night, is happy with the meager Rs. 1200 he struggles to earn every week but is hurt by the exclusionary bourgeois attitude of the city. Although the bomb blasts leave him personally unaffected, he realizes that the incident has brought distress to others who are higher up in the class structure. Armed with this knowledge his simple mind finds a way to strike back at the society which refuses to let him belong, by making hoax calls at malls.
Rupali Joshi (Soha Ali Khan), a reporter working for one of the leading news channels in Mumbai is a strong proponent of freedom of expression and the importance of the fourth estate. The 7/11 explosions bring home a shocking subjective quandary and test her passion for objectivity.
The film moves away from all the generalized political and academic debates surrounding terrorism as a concept and follows a more nuclear approach by depicting the violence of individual trauma generated in the lives of five common individuals. As the proverbial stone thrown upon an anthill, the film depicts the aftermath of the incident, traversing individual journeys of five worker ants, amongst the millions that belong to the colony, towards normalcy.
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