Thakshak

SYNOPSIS

A poetic romance between Ishaan and Suman set against the concrete Bombay citycape, opens the film. Ishaan, the only son of an affluent business family and Sunny, the grandson of the head of the business house, are being groomed to take over the work. They share a strong male bonding, Ishaans controlled & silent strength an anchor to Sunnys flamboyant and recklessly violent streak. The business, a construction empire build tb Ishaans father Nahar Singh and Sunnys grandfather is rooted in violent and unlawful activities.

Ishaan, sheltered in comfort and security, begins to question his environment as his relationship with Suman, an idealistic young woman, opens a new world to him. As his love for her grows, so does his fear of losing her. Ishaan is caught between a life steeped in violence ans his love for Suman who abhors violence.

Torn by his desire to leave the world of crime, and a sense of loyalty to his father and his friend Sunny, Ishaan unwillingly gets drawn deeper into violence, and finds himself a participant in an act of gruesome cold blooded massacre. The image of a young girl disable by the violence haunts his conscience . His quiet but firm resolve to withdraw for the business clashes with Nahar Singhs pragmatism, to build popwer at any cost and to legalize crime with that popwer, and with Sunnys refusal to release him from his oath of loyalty.

The events escalate with Ishaans arrest, and Nahar Singhs murder. Ishaan is finally forced to make a choice between personal loyalty and a larger allegiance to Society and truth.

Thakshak is a story about an individual caught in the eternal moral conflict, a choice between personal relationships and socials responsibility. This conflict is manifest in Ishaans character in the film who symbolizes the youth of today, caught in a web of personal relationships, their apathy to social responsibility. He is beckoned to look beyond his own world by the idealistic Suman. Her love gives him the strength to stand for the truth, to rise above the personal and see violence and crime in its true and ugly from garbed under the cloak of frienship and loyalty.