Cinesprint_Magazine_April_2017

The film had its world premiere
at the Mumbai Film Festival on
October 26, 2016. It was praised
and received a Standing ovation.
The film released all over on
March 17, 2017 and it received
exceptional response from the
audience.
Shaurya (Rajkummar Rao) and
his girlfriend Noorie (Geetanjali
Thapa) plans to elope and get
married, a day before Noorie's
marriage with someone else. As
Shaurya lives in boys hostel, he
plans to shift to a new flat. In a
hurry to find a cheap house he
ends up shifting in a high rise
apartment, which is empty due
to some legal issues. Ironically,
neither the only security guard nor
Noorie knows that he has shifted
in this empty building. Next
morning Shaurya accidentally
locks himself up in his new rented
apartment. He makes some initial
attempt to break open the lock but
fails. Due to a discharged phone,
he is unable to contact anybody.
Shaurya, now totally disconnected
with outside world struggles to
survive being claustrophobic and
without food, water and electricity.
As days passes by, he makes
several failed attempts to get any
help:-
Trying to shout out to the guard.
Sends help message written on
cardboards with his blood, which
goes un-noticed.
Burns fire in the balcony during
night to grab someone's attention
but soon has to put it out as the
fire starts spreading inside the
flat.
Desperate to survive Shaurya has
to feed on cockroaches, ants and
pigeons and also starts talking to
a rat for company. To his relief it
rains heavily and Shaurya collects
as much water possible in empty
containers. Almost a week later
his health started falling cos of
starvation or eating unhygienic
things. Shaurya then gathers
some courage and decides that
he will not die in here. He plans
to escape through balcony grill
by cutting it with a mettle sheet,
which took days. He then hangs
out of balcony and climbs down
five floors by railing, with the
constant risk of falling down to
his death. He reaches down the
13th floor which had no grills,
hence manges to breaks into the
flat and finally could escape out
of the building. Due to too much
weakness he faints and been
rushed to a hospital. A week
later Noorie, who is now married
to someone else gives him a
visit in hospital. Heartbroken
and traumatized by the incident
Shaurya returns to his life and
office. He is confound to see that
no one has noticed his absence
as everyone is too busy in their
own world, thus portraying the
lifestyle of metro cities these
days.
Throws down his Led Tv.
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