10 Endrathukulla 2015

A getaway driver Vikram who shrouds his real name behind a rotating roster of flashy aliases—think “James Bond,” “Mani Ratnam,” “Sunil Gavaskar,” and “Sachin Tendulkar”—accepts a job from a local crime boss named Das to deliver Shakeela to Abhimanyu Singh in Mussoorie. The mission centers on a woman who is an orphan and has stubbornly failed her driving test fourteen times, a detail that irks the driver as they trudge along the road. Yet as the miles unfold, the tense ride loosens the driver’s armor and a reluctant connection begins to bloom between him and Shakeela, softening his unease with every mile they share.

In Mussoorie, the driver completes the first stage of his grim assignment by killing Abhimanyu Singh’s character, Pooran Singh, and he soon learns that Shakeela is meant to be handed over to Rahul Dev as part of a larger, darker plan. Daksha Bhai, an influential upper-caste landlord from an Uttarakhand village, looms large in the backdrop of these events, and Shakeela’s fate appears to be tied to a web of caste dynamics and retribution. The driver is invited to stay at Daksha Bhai’s ancestral mansion during a festival, a setting that thickens the plot with a claustrophobic tension and a sense that danger lurks behind every ornate doorway.

The truth behind Shakeela’s delivery is revealed: she is the doppelgänger of Gadgi Moi, Daksha Bhai’s cruel and merciless sister—an upper-caste leader who has already been sentenced to death for orchestrating massacres against lower-caste communities. Daksha Bhai intends to use Shakeela as a stand-in for Gadgi during the last rites of Gadgi’s dead grandmother, a plan that hinges on deception and the echoes of past violence. Yet the arrangement unravels when Shakeela manages to slip away from law enforcement, triggering a cascade of chaos that unsettles the mansion and its keepers.

Gadgi Moi, breaking cover, kidnaps Shakeela with a chilling resolve to kill her aboard a moving train. The driver arrives in the nick of time to intervene, confronting Gadgi in a violent confrontation that ends with Gadgi meeting a fatal fall from the speeding carriage. In the midst of the catastrophe, Daksha Bhai discovers the grim truth: he had killed Gadgi, and Shakeela had been thrown into his car by the driver. The revelation devastates Daksha, driving him to a desperate act: he leaps from the train with Gadgi’s corpse, unable to bear the weight of his own treachery.

In the aftermath, the driver and Shakeela, now deeply bonded, set out on a long drive back toward Chennai. The journey closes with a quiet, unresolved tension as the driver finally whispers his real name into Shakeela’s ear, a moment that she greets with a potent mix of disgust and lingering distrust. The road ends not with a clear triumph, but with a fragile, charged connection that hints at a future built on shared secrets and the pull of a dangerous past.