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Naache Mrityu / Dance with Death – Synopsis

Genre: Mystery, thriller

Writer: Pinaki Ghosh

While participating in a dangerous television reality game show (name of the game show is Naache Mrityu, or Dance with Death) in which in the 1st round the contestants are required to hold their breath under water in a glass box, chained & locked up, with several keys inside the water-filled glass box, upcoming pop singer contestant Ishan Khan suffocates to death inside the glass box, unable to open it and the reality game show comes to a stop in a chaos.

The pathologist preparing Ishan’s blood report in the forensic lab gets a late-night phone call.

To investigate about the unusual incident, not very successful journalist duo Dabbu and Jojo (who are childhood friends working for rival newspapers; Jojo married with a kid, Dabbu still single) come in touch with young police officer Lila who is enquiring into the matter. She is being helped by her late father’s friend & mentor Ex-Commissioner of Police Niladri Bose, who was present at the reality game show as the Chief Guest. Having lost his only son who died at a tender age, widower Mr. Bose has a soft corner for Lila.

Lila, amused by the queer and almost comical ways of the journalist duo and their rivalry laced friendship and also their attempts to impress her, develops a liking for the two.

Lila, with help from Niladri Bose, investigates the unusual death case, interrogating the producer of the game show Rahul, his girlfriend Priyanka and the game concept planner Sandy (Sandeep), who are all in their early thirties or late twenties. These three also happen to be college buddies, with a close bond.

While investigating and keeping Dabbu and Jojo informed about the case, Lila realizes both the 2 friends have developed a feeling for her that is at the same time elder brotherly and romantic in nature. She enjoys their infatuation over her and subtly flirts with both, invoking jealousy between the two. At the same time, she is greatly impressed by the bond the two have between them despite the jealousy and heartburns.

But Jojo’s wife, Mandira, is not at all impressed when one evening she finds out about the developing friendship between the trio. She blasts Jojo. Dabbu and Lila flee from the scene. But later Lila comes to Mandira and wins her over. The two become good friends and begin to have fun at the expense of the two men.

Investigating the case further, Lila and her mentor Niladri Bose come to know both Sandy and Priyanka have drug links, and so did Ishan who was a drug addict and also a drug dealer. Priyanka owed money to Ishan and it was she who invited Ishan to the show. Lila believes Priyanka’s plan was: Ishan would dope to win the game and the prize money that came with it, which would compensate for the money she needed to pay Ishan; she would falsify the dope test report to show no drug was present in Ishan’s blood. But overdosage of dope led to Ishaan’s death. It is a theory Lila is unable to establish for lack of proof.

But no drug was found in Ishan’s forensic blood report either. So, Lila is unable to establish any foul play. Did Priyanka influence the forensic pathologist then? She vehemently denies. Lila suspects foul play and takes Priyanka and Rahul into custody. Yet the forensic pathologist is found killed in a road-accident before he could be questioned.

Dabbu and Jojo suspect that Lila is being deceived into a wrong direction in the investigation.

Dabbu and Jojo decide to investigate themselves and talk to Sandy and Priyanka separately. They talk about their past. In a flashback we see the developing friendly relationship between three friends Rahul, Priyanka and Sandy, who were all college buddies but Rahul being the more talented (in filmmaking and music) and wealthy, wins the love of Priyanka, leaving a scar inside the heart of Sandy, who nevertheless remain their good friend. Ishan Khan, the upcoming singer was also from the same college and there were frequent frictions between Ishan and Rahul several years ago following an incident of Ishaan’s attempt to molest Priyanka, which led to fistfight between Rahul and Ishaan in the college. Rahul and Ishan were both suspended from college for 2 weeks after this. Sandy, who had a soft cornet for Priyanka, had sworn to equal the score.

Several years later, Sandy had planned the dangerous reality game show and the idea to invite Ishaan to the game show came from Priyanka. This information leaves Dabbu and Jojo more baffled as they now find a new motive behind Ishaan’s death. This new motive points to Sandy and Priyanka who had reasons to kill Ishaan. But did they? Journalists Dabbu and Jojo visit Jacob, the maker of the glass box used in the reality game show, to find out if the glass box can get jammed on purpose if someone wanted. They find the glass box can be jammed by manipulating with the mechanism.

Dabbu and Jojo also find out by Googling, that Ishan’s father, Murtaza Khan, was an ex-convict responsible for the murder of several kids in a school in Delhi more than a decade ago and has been released from jail recently. From old newspapers they find the report with the photograph of the murdered kids.

Alongwith Lila, Jojo, Dabbu and Mandira bring joy in widower Niladri Bose’s solitary life. All 4 spend a Sunday in Niladri Bose’s huge house, next to the Ganga. While returning in car, a thought occurs to Mandira and she wants to see the old newspaper photo of the kids murdered by Murtaza. Jojo brings the photo on his smart phone screen. Mandira points to one particular kid. The rest are stunned. It’s the same kid whose photo is on the photo-frame on Niladri Bose’s bedroom nightstand. The kid was Niladri Bose’s son. The 4 are baffled by the new discovery.

A moment’s reckoning and Lila goes for her phone and revisits the footage of the inauguration of the game show where the Ex-Commissioner Niladri Bose is shaking hand with Ishaan just before the game show. Close scrutiny reveals Ishan slightly wincing while shaking hand with Niladri; the grip seems a bit too long before he releases Ishan’s hand. Now they get the true picture. Niladri had wanted to kill Ishan to get even with Murtaza Khan who had killed his son more than a decade ago. Ishan must have been injected with something deadly by Niladri while shaking his hand with a sharp needle, that caused his suffocation & death during the 2-minute stay inside the water-filled glass box. So that that substance does not come up in the blood report, Niladri forced the forensic pathologist to manipulate the report. Then he killed the pathologist in an accident fearing Lila might question him.

Meanwhile, Rahul and Priyanka are released from custody for not being guilty, but they are abducted in a car by an unknown person, from outside the police station. Fearing it is Niladri, Lila, Dabbu and Jojo track the car’s location and chase it. The car enters a huge dumping ground with vultures flying overhead, and another car comes face to face with the car in the dumping ground. The 3rd car has Lila, Dubbu and Jojo. From the 2nd car, Niladri Bose gets down, pointing a gun towards the 1st car where an unknown abductor has abducted Rahul and Priyanka. The abductor reveals himself and it is Murtaza Khan, Ishaan’s convict father. He is back with a mission of vengeance against his son Ishaan’s death. Niladri tells Murtaza to leave Rahul and Priyanka because they are not responsible for Ishaan’s murder. He says he is the one responsible, and had done so to equal score with Murtaza, who had killed Niladri’s son a decade back.

A gunfight ensues between Niladri Bose, Murtaza Khan and Lila in the huge dumping ground. Lila asks for reinforcements from the headquarters. Murtaza almost kills Lila, but Niladri takes the bullet in his chest and dies on Lila’s lap, following which Lila kills Murtaza after a climax fight.

Next day the city comes to know of the gunfight that killed Ex-Commissioner of Police Niladri Bose and ex-convict Murtaza Khan, the killer of Niladri’s son. Dubbu & Jojo’s career improve as journalists.

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