Madras Cafe

Madras Cafe is a 2013 Indian political espionage thriller film directed by Shoojit Sircar and starring John Abraham, Nargis Fakhri, Rashi Khanna and Leena Paul in lead roles. The film is set in the late 1980s and early 90s, during the time of Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war and assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

As per John Abraham, Madras Cafe brings us closer to what changed the political history of India. The film, set in India and Sri Lanka, is a political spy thriller with the backdrop of the Sri Lankan Civil War. Major Vikram Singh John Abraham is an Indian Army special officer who is appointed by the intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing to head covert operations in Jaffna shortly after Indian peacekeeping force was forced to withdraw. As he journeys to Sri Lanka with the intention of disrupting the LTTE rebels, he becomes entangled in rebel and military politics. There he meets a British journalist Jaya Sahni Nargis Fakhri who wants to reveal the truth about the civil war, and in the process he uncovers a conspiracy to assassinate a former Indian prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, through the use of plastic explosives. Although Vikram tries, at 1010pm, an LTTE suicide bomber kills Gandhi while bowing down to put a garland on his neck.The plot opens in Jaffna, where a bus full of passengers is stopped by armed men. They take all of them out and kill them mercilessly. A little girl tries to escape, but is shot and killed immediately. ........

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