Prakash, a well known fashion designer in Hyderabad was arrested last Saturday convicted with the murder of Ananya – the famous model and airhostess. He with his influence is out on a bail and is in search of the real murderer investigating the mystery all by himself. It is then when he meets Soori.
Dope sourced from Bangalore used to be smuggled in Hyderabad on Fridays at a famous shopping mall-Shopper’s Central. The deal was so planned that dope was exchanged with money between a Bangalorean and a Hyderabadi in two similar bags of the same shopping mall in the safest non surveillance zone – washroom, so that no body suspects of the act. This dope was distributed to the pub owners for the weekend specials to weaken the desperate youth.
Prakash, is sure that the murder is somewhere connected to this smuggling act and goes to Shopper’s Central on Friday. He there sees the Bangalorean waiting for the Hyderabadi and hits into him. Unsatisfied by the little/no information provided by the Bangalorean, Prakash sets right the latter and takes the bag of dope taken from the Bangalorean and meets the Hyderabadi – Soori.
Soori is a youngster around 20s with a good heart believing in the concept of rags-to-riches and indulges into all kinds of anything that smell money. Despite a couple of beatings from the cops with some sheets filed on him at the police stations, he was always ready to take that extra step for smart money. Prakash tries to force Soori as well to get hold of some information and after finding out that Soori is nowhere connected, he threatens the latter to go with him. Soori smells smart money here-cash in his hand, and dope in Prakash’s hand. What if he snatches both and escapes? This idea forces Soori to follow Prakash.
Before the Bangalorean regained his senses, or somebody else noticed, Prakash and Soori smartly reach the parking area through the fire exit staircase and get into former’s car. Holding the keys, which he found from the quick search on the fainted Bangalorean, Prakash calls his close pal Sharma over his mobile and informs him that he got hold of the Bangalorean and the only things that he could get were the bag of dope and a pair of keys with a seal of the hotel name-Paradise. Sharma quickly browses the net and locates the hotel around Shamshabad airport, and reads out the address while Prakash makes Soori to note it down. Prakash then starts off to Hotel Paradise along with Soori-and then talks about his past to Soori.
Prakash is a very popular person in the Fashion Design Industry whose daytime was spent at his state-of-the-art design studio at Banjara Hills and nights at pubs. Clothes, Booze, Women were the next things to his skin. It is through a pub, he meets Ananya, an air hostess in a reputed airline company and impressed by her modeling profile, Prakash requests her to help him with his campaigns and they both work and get along to each other.
Last Friday, when Prakash, Sharma, and Ananya were at a pub, Ananya calls somebody and threatens to screw up their lives if they don’t accept to her terms and conditions. Mystified Sharma, and Prakash enquire about the call and she in a drunken tone tells them that every Friday dope comes to Hyderabad from Karnataka and is smuggled at Shopper’s Central washrooms. The duo laughs off at this and all the three start off. Being high on dope, Ananya and her boy friend Sharma become reluctant to drive; Sharma takes off a cab while Ananya asks Prakash to drop her. The very same night, Ananya gets murdered, and Prakash being the last person to be seen with Ananya gets arrested.
The car reaches Hotel Paradise. Soori interested by the story, thinks of spending more time with Prakash, at the same time waiting for the right opportunity to grab the bags. Prakash along with Soori hurriedly rushes to the room, numbered on the keys. After a timid search, they find nothing and return to the reception seeking more information. The receptionist after looking into the records informs that two guys from Bangalore arrived that morning and one of them had left early in the morning while the other left the room a few minutes back. After finding out that the details entered in the registry were invalid, she informs that they have not checked out yet and booked the room for one day. Prakash returning the keys to her requests to keep him updated with any other information and leaves his contact information with her.
Prakash in despair backs off to his place in his car accompanied by Soori. Soori feels sorry for Prakash and decides to help him. He requests Prakash to go to Soori’s home at Mehdipatnam and have lunch, so that he also could help the former in the investigation. Prakash agrees and on the way back, Soori asks about Sharma.
Born to well known doctors settled in America, Sharma is a smart and dynamic NRI in his mid 30s, who is in India attracted to yield gold out of Real Estate and Filmy boom. He was all over the news after purchasing huge land adjacent to Mytas County at Nizampet Road and winning 1 National Award for the Best Film Producer for his recent film based on women empowerment at the same time. He is calm and sensitive guy and searches for new heroines by wandering across the pubs in Hyderabad, and this is where he meets Prakash and Ananya.
Pretty impressed by the looks of Ananya he desperately tries and fails in making her his heroine but succeeds in winning over her heart. All the three used to hang out during their weekends while the love birds even found some time for their naughty privacy. It is on the same day, when Sharma and Ananya decide to settle down by getting married and throw a grand party to all their well wishers, Ananya gets killed.
The car stops at a small house somewhere in the streets of Mehdipatnam. Both of them get into Soori’s house. Soori introduces Prakash as his boss to his father lying on the bed, and to his mom who is sitting beside him. Soori’s mom welcomes Prakash and invites them for lunch. It only took a few steps and glances inside Soori’s house for Prakash to confirm that this family is below poverty line. Amidst of all this tension, Prakash gets moved by the family and asks Soori to keep both the bags they were carrying (dope and money) with him, until everything gets sorted. He even clues to be careful with the dope bag, but sensible with the money bag expecting it to be used for the welfare of Soori’s family. Impressed by this, Soori recalls his past.
Soori is well acquainted with a guy named Srinu, who stays near Charminar. Both of them were graduation mates and hailed from typical below middle class backgrounds. But Srinu was a huge spendthrift and used to spend money like hell not only for himself, but also his pals. When asked about the source of the money, he simply used to say that he was doing part time job as a delivery boy for some unknown people. Switching bags is the only thing, he did. Then this Friday, while he was supposed to deliver this bag, he meets with a small accident and breaks his leg on the way to Panjagutta. He gets admitted in Nilofar Hospital at Mehdipatnam, and when Soori goes to see him at the hospital, the former requests him to do the delivery for the first time. Looking at Srinu’s condition, Soori agrees to swap the bags, and this is where he meets Prakash.
After listening to the entire story, Prakash requests Soori to take him to Srinu. Soori agrees and both start off to the hospital. After enquiring with Srinu, he tells that even he doesn’t know anything about the sources. All that he knows is, whenever a swap is required Srinu receives a money order on his name with a small note that contains the pickup time, place, swap time, place and delivery time, and place. The rest is self explanatory. This time the pickup was in the garbage bin located on the 4th floor at the food counter of Shopper’s Central; while the swap was on the 2nd floor washroom of the same building, the delivery was to leave the bag beneath the first table beside the cash counter at a hotel called Top Inn at Khairatabad exactly at 2:30.
The clock on the wall of the hospital is ticking fast and it reads 1:45. Prakash asks Srinu, about how he got this job and more explanation about the locations. Soori tells he received an anonymous mail a couple of months back to his house about a delivery job, where the mail’s message is that a few guys who were unemployed and looking out for smart money can avail a golden chance and revealing about the mail to anybody would be a threat to their entire family. On sending an acceptance note to an email address, the delivery job started and the rest is history. Srinu informed that it is only unemployment and the thirst for posh life makes them to do these kinds of things and also tells that almost some 20-25 guys around his place could be involved in these kinds of things. He even tells that he has been doing this for months but never has been to the same place, or seen the same person for swap twice. Shocked by listening to this sophisticated set up, Prakash starts off in a rush with Soori to the latter’s place to take the dope bag and deliver at Khairatabad, so that it could provide a lead.
With lots of trouble amidst traffic between Nilofar and Mehdipatnam, the duo reach Soori’s house and start off to Khairatabad. It is luckily 2:20 by the time they reach Khairatabad with the dope bag. All the way Prakash was lost by the name of the hotel expecting it to be of star ambience and was also surprised how he could miss one being a party man. To his surprise, enquiring a couple of pedestrians midway both Prakash and Soori reach an ordinary irani tea hotel with not more than 6 benches busy with people and boys serving tea and biscuits. They quickly enter the place and hide the bag underneath the bench as informed by Srinu cheating other’s eyes and wait quietly for the other party for pick up. After a tensed hour, a 15 year old kid comes on a bicycle and speaks something to the person sitting next to the cash counter. He orders for lunch sitting at the first bench; and while Prakash and Soori wait anxiously to see the other party the kid after having his lunch for around 30 mins leans down and picks the bag left by Prakash.
To their astonishment he also picks up three more similar bags beneath the same bench which went left unnoticed by Prakash and starts off on the bicycle. After taking a few seconds to digest the fact that they were only 1/4th part of the set up, they start off looking into each other’s faces and quietly follow the kid for some time. The kid reaches Khairatabad junction crossroads and handles over the bags to a bearded man waiting for him in a red maruthi van. Just when the man takes over the bags he notices Prakash and Soori watching them and start off in a rush towards Punjagutta. The duo hurriedly chases and getting caught by the afternoon traffic jams of Hyderabad, they reach the check post of Jubilee Hills where they find the empty van abandoned at a petrol bunk. After a thorough search inside the van and enquiring the people at the bunk about any information, it strikes to Prakash’s mind that he has seen the man inside and the van before.
In despair, both of them go to a cart and have tea. The time is around 5:00. Prakash then remembers that he has seen that man and the van at Ananya’s place on the night she was killed. That night when he drops her at her place at Banjara Hills Prakash asks this man for a lighter to smoke. He informs the same to Soori and both rush to Ananya’s place around 5:30. Having known that it is not so safe to enter a sealed place during the day time, they wait until it is dark. Around 6:15 they quietly enter Ananya’s place and after a thorough search for about one hour in the dark with a torch light they find in the kitchen and finding nothing they get completely tired and with all the hopes lost they reach the main door to exit, and just then they hear a beep from around the corner of the room of the entrance.
Soori points out Prakash to an object glowing randomly with a beep in the dark. Prakash reaches out for the object lying under the couch next to the main entrance door. It was a black berry phone with low battery warning. It was the same phone that Ananya spoke to somebody the night she was killed. Prakash looks at the dialed numbers and he finds that there is one number that was called from that number. Prakash tries to reach for that number from the black berry, and just then the phone switches off.
Frustrated by this act but with feeble hopes to get out of this mystery, Prakash asks Soori if he knew anybody who has a black berry mobile charger. Prakash actually has a couple of contacts who have similar phones, but he did not feel safe to contact them now for a charger. Soori tells him that he knows a bar owner at Yousufguda who has a similar piece. Prakash gives him his car keys to Soori and asks him to get the phone recharged immediately. He also gives Soori his mobile number for in case of any emergency. He informs to stay there and search more expecting to find any clues. After Soori starts off and while Prakash is searching the house for a clue, he gets a call from Sharma enquiring about his whereabouts. Prakash narrates the whole story to Sharma.
Sharma feels happy about the updates and asks Prakash if he ever knew about the dialed number on Ananya’s mobile. Sharma recollects that he never heard about that number. Becoming suspicious about the death of Ananya, and getting a strong belief that there is another person involved other than him and Prakash, Sharma asks Prakash to come to his house at Mytas, so that they could talk more and also notes down the dialed number to inform the cops about the same. Sharma tells Prakash that he is calling the cops for more information about the number. After a tired day, Prakash feels fine about the progress of things and starts off to Sharma’s place at Nizampet in an auto. On the way Prakash tries to reach Soori over Ananya’s mobile and finds it is still switched off. He then puts a message (expecting to be read by Soori once it is switched on) across the mobile with the address of Sharma’s place asking Soori to go there.
Since the murder of Ananya, her mobile numbers have been under surveillance, and so Ananya’s mobile which was used by no one after her death suddenly received a message and this triggers the mobile network people at ECIL. According to the facts by the cellular network, Ananya’s number was either majorly called to or was dialed to only 3 numbers. One belonged to Prakash, one to Sharma, and the other number was never known to anybody’s existence. Surprisingly this number was also registered to Ananya under the C.U.G (Closed User Group) of the airline company she used to work for.
The dialed number under mystery was always switched off and the police could never unveil the mystery, to whom this number belonged to. In such circumstances a message to Ananya’s mobile and that too from Prakash’s mobile alerts the cops at Panjagutta and they note down the message which asks somebody to go to an address at Nizampet. While the cops inform the cops at Banjara Hills to track down the address on SMS, they are taken to surprise when they get another call from the mobile network that a message was sent to an Airtel mobile registered to somebody at Balanagar. The weird part about the news is that the message was sent from Ananya’s mysterious number, which was idle all these days. The cops try to reach both the numbers of Ananya. The mysterious number is ringing but nobody picks it up. They also try to reach her general mobile number.
Meanwhile at Yousufguda, Soori who is having a talk with the owner of the bar gets a call on the black berry that is getting charged and he picks it up and it is the cops. They inform him that they are trying to unravel the mystery and enquire about from where Soori got the number and where is he now. Soori with a sign of discomfort and relief narrates the whole story and informs them about his whereabouts. They inform him to stay there. After disconnecting the call, he reads the message sent by Prakash and calls him back. Prakash just then reaches Sharma’s house, and scolds Soori for telling the whole story to the cops as there could arise more complications, but asks him to move from there as soon as possible. Soori apologizes and comes out of the bar to go to Sharma’s house but gets horrified to see a few men waiting from him in the same red maruthi van that was abandoned at jubilee hills check post. The men threaten him to get into the van.
Prakash knocks on the door of Sharma’s house and the latter opens the door with a glass of whisky in his hand. Sharma welcomes and Prakash feels guilty to step into the house as it is haunted by the memories of Ananya. The walls are completely covered by Ananya’s paintings and the wedding cards of their marriage are lying on the table. Sharma taps Prakash’s shoulder in grief and asks him to join him for a drink. Prakash then also discovers that Sharma was then watching a video of Ananya’s shooting profile and lowers his head in grief. Sharma then mixes a drink and offers it to Prakash and asks if he ever knew how much he loved Ananya and starts talking about her, while Prakash listens to Sharma in silence.
The red maruthi van stops at Krishna Nagar traffic lights towards Banjara Hills and Soori somehow flees from there and reaches Banjara Hills police station. He rushes to the cops there and informs them about the whole story. The cops send some men to get hold of the van. They also after listening to his story about Ananya and the black berry mystery call the mobile network people. The latter inform that the Panjagutta cops are well updated with this and they ask the cops to check with them. After reaching Panjagutta station all the clues get connected and this is what they reveal.
According to them, after a couple of day’s silence, all of a sudden a message is sent to Ananya’s mobile about an address at Nizampet. This message is followed by weird message from the mysterious number under her name to an Airtel number which read “Call Them, Find Them & Kill Them”. This is when the cops got bewildered and listening to this Soori trembles with fear and handles the black berry phone to the cops to check for the number he got a call from Yousufguda and they give him the shock of his life with two facts. The first fact is that the Airtel number was the same number that got the message from Ananya’s mysterious number and the second news is that the last dialed number on her mobile when she was murdered and the mysterious number that has created all the troubles are same.
Everybody becomes silent and one of them tries to reach to this mysterious number. It is ringing but there is no response. Soori informs that Prakash is at Nizampet and try to reach him to tell the whole story, but his mobile is out of coverage area. They start off to Nizampet, while Soori keeps trying to reach Ananya’s mysterious number. Whom does this number belong to?
Prakash and Sharma are still having their drinks talking about the updates and then Sharma gets a call from an anonymous number. He doesn’t pick up the call but disconnects it and puts his mobile in his kurta’s pocket and leaves to the rest room. Sharma on his ways asks Prakash to pause the video and the latter tries to find the remote and just then he discovers that the mobile Sharma left unattended was still lying there. He sees there are two missed calls and recollects Sharma not taking any calls.
Just while he was about to put it back where he took it from, his hand trembles with fear and it is Ananya calling. With a chill spine he picks up the call to hear Soori’s voice who says to Prakash that owner of this number is the main culprit. Soori almost faints when he gets to know that it is none other than Sharma. Prakash disconnects the call and turns behind to see Sharma standing there with a gun pointing at Prakash’s head. Prakash with a shaken voice asks Sharma that when everything was fine, why this?
Sharma starts talking – He tells that Ananya and Sharma truly loved each other but there was something more. They were the main people behind drug trafficking. Sharma with his contacts from Bangalore used the job of Ananya as an air hostess to get the drugs delivered and everything was fine until the night Ananya was murdered, she was talking to nobody but was leaving a voice mail across the mysterious number which was used by Sharma for the dark business. Expecting a threat from Ananya, he tells Prakash that he got her killed and by luck Prakash got pulled into the same. He tells Prakash that when he discovered everything about the murder, Sharma wanted to gift him a peaceful death and that is the reason he explained everything to him. Just when Sharma is about to shoot Prakash, Soori arrives with the cops and Sharma gets killed.
Looking at the dialed numbers and messages on Sharma’s mobile, they then find out that it was Sharma who sent a message to his men to get Soori killed. These men called Soori claiming to be as cops and the former lets them know where he is. Finally, after finding some dope in Sharma’s house, the truth is revealed and Prakash is freed innocent.
Soori now owns a mobile store at Khairatabad with the money given to him by Prakash and acknowledged the latter with a small gift – a Black Berry.
Dope sourced from Bangalore used to be smuggled in Hyderabad on Fridays at a famous shopping mall-Shopper’s Central. The deal was so planned that dope was exchanged with money between a Bangalorean and a Hyderabadi in two similar bags of the same shopping mall in the safest non surveillance zone – washroom, so that no body suspects of the act. This dope was distributed to the pub owners for the weekend specials to weaken the desperate youth.
Prakash, is sure that the murder is somewhere connected to this smuggling act and goes to Shopper’s Central on Friday. He there sees the Bangalorean waiting for the Hyderabadi and hits into him. Unsatisfied by the little/no information provided by the Bangalorean, Prakash sets right the latter and takes the bag of dope taken from the Bangalorean and meets the Hyderabadi – Soori.
Soori is a youngster around 20s with a good heart believing in the concept of rags-to-riches and indulges into all kinds of anything that smell money. Despite a couple of beatings from the cops with some sheets filed on him at the police stations, he was always ready to take that extra step for smart money. Prakash tries to force Soori as well to get hold of some information and after finding out that Soori is nowhere connected, he threatens the latter to go with him. Soori smells smart money here-cash in his hand, and dope in Prakash’s hand. What if he snatches both and escapes? This idea forces Soori to follow Prakash.
Before the Bangalorean regained his senses, or somebody else noticed, Prakash and Soori smartly reach the parking area through the fire exit staircase and get into former’s car. Holding the keys, which he found from the quick search on the fainted Bangalorean, Prakash calls his close pal Sharma over his mobile and informs him that he got hold of the Bangalorean and the only things that he could get were the bag of dope and a pair of keys with a seal of the hotel name-Paradise. Sharma quickly browses the net and locates the hotel around Shamshabad airport, and reads out the address while Prakash makes Soori to note it down. Prakash then starts off to Hotel Paradise along with Soori-and then talks about his past to Soori.
Prakash is a very popular person in the Fashion Design Industry whose daytime was spent at his state-of-the-art design studio at Banjara Hills and nights at pubs. Clothes, Booze, Women were the next things to his skin. It is through a pub, he meets Ananya, an air hostess in a reputed airline company and impressed by her modeling profile, Prakash requests her to help him with his campaigns and they both work and get along to each other.
Last Friday, when Prakash, Sharma, and Ananya were at a pub, Ananya calls somebody and threatens to screw up their lives if they don’t accept to her terms and conditions. Mystified Sharma, and Prakash enquire about the call and she in a drunken tone tells them that every Friday dope comes to Hyderabad from Karnataka and is smuggled at Shopper’s Central washrooms. The duo laughs off at this and all the three start off. Being high on dope, Ananya and her boy friend Sharma become reluctant to drive; Sharma takes off a cab while Ananya asks Prakash to drop her. The very same night, Ananya gets murdered, and Prakash being the last person to be seen with Ananya gets arrested.
The car reaches Hotel Paradise. Soori interested by the story, thinks of spending more time with Prakash, at the same time waiting for the right opportunity to grab the bags. Prakash along with Soori hurriedly rushes to the room, numbered on the keys. After a timid search, they find nothing and return to the reception seeking more information. The receptionist after looking into the records informs that two guys from Bangalore arrived that morning and one of them had left early in the morning while the other left the room a few minutes back. After finding out that the details entered in the registry were invalid, she informs that they have not checked out yet and booked the room for one day. Prakash returning the keys to her requests to keep him updated with any other information and leaves his contact information with her.
Prakash in despair backs off to his place in his car accompanied by Soori. Soori feels sorry for Prakash and decides to help him. He requests Prakash to go to Soori’s home at Mehdipatnam and have lunch, so that he also could help the former in the investigation. Prakash agrees and on the way back, Soori asks about Sharma.
Born to well known doctors settled in America, Sharma is a smart and dynamic NRI in his mid 30s, who is in India attracted to yield gold out of Real Estate and Filmy boom. He was all over the news after purchasing huge land adjacent to Mytas County at Nizampet Road and winning 1 National Award for the Best Film Producer for his recent film based on women empowerment at the same time. He is calm and sensitive guy and searches for new heroines by wandering across the pubs in Hyderabad, and this is where he meets Prakash and Ananya.
Pretty impressed by the looks of Ananya he desperately tries and fails in making her his heroine but succeeds in winning over her heart. All the three used to hang out during their weekends while the love birds even found some time for their naughty privacy. It is on the same day, when Sharma and Ananya decide to settle down by getting married and throw a grand party to all their well wishers, Ananya gets killed.
The car stops at a small house somewhere in the streets of Mehdipatnam. Both of them get into Soori’s house. Soori introduces Prakash as his boss to his father lying on the bed, and to his mom who is sitting beside him. Soori’s mom welcomes Prakash and invites them for lunch. It only took a few steps and glances inside Soori’s house for Prakash to confirm that this family is below poverty line. Amidst of all this tension, Prakash gets moved by the family and asks Soori to keep both the bags they were carrying (dope and money) with him, until everything gets sorted. He even clues to be careful with the dope bag, but sensible with the money bag expecting it to be used for the welfare of Soori’s family. Impressed by this, Soori recalls his past.
Soori is well acquainted with a guy named Srinu, who stays near Charminar. Both of them were graduation mates and hailed from typical below middle class backgrounds. But Srinu was a huge spendthrift and used to spend money like hell not only for himself, but also his pals. When asked about the source of the money, he simply used to say that he was doing part time job as a delivery boy for some unknown people. Switching bags is the only thing, he did. Then this Friday, while he was supposed to deliver this bag, he meets with a small accident and breaks his leg on the way to Panjagutta. He gets admitted in Nilofar Hospital at Mehdipatnam, and when Soori goes to see him at the hospital, the former requests him to do the delivery for the first time. Looking at Srinu’s condition, Soori agrees to swap the bags, and this is where he meets Prakash.
After listening to the entire story, Prakash requests Soori to take him to Srinu. Soori agrees and both start off to the hospital. After enquiring with Srinu, he tells that even he doesn’t know anything about the sources. All that he knows is, whenever a swap is required Srinu receives a money order on his name with a small note that contains the pickup time, place, swap time, place and delivery time, and place. The rest is self explanatory. This time the pickup was in the garbage bin located on the 4th floor at the food counter of Shopper’s Central; while the swap was on the 2nd floor washroom of the same building, the delivery was to leave the bag beneath the first table beside the cash counter at a hotel called Top Inn at Khairatabad exactly at 2:30.
The clock on the wall of the hospital is ticking fast and it reads 1:45. Prakash asks Srinu, about how he got this job and more explanation about the locations. Soori tells he received an anonymous mail a couple of months back to his house about a delivery job, where the mail’s message is that a few guys who were unemployed and looking out for smart money can avail a golden chance and revealing about the mail to anybody would be a threat to their entire family. On sending an acceptance note to an email address, the delivery job started and the rest is history. Srinu informed that it is only unemployment and the thirst for posh life makes them to do these kinds of things and also tells that almost some 20-25 guys around his place could be involved in these kinds of things. He even tells that he has been doing this for months but never has been to the same place, or seen the same person for swap twice. Shocked by listening to this sophisticated set up, Prakash starts off in a rush with Soori to the latter’s place to take the dope bag and deliver at Khairatabad, so that it could provide a lead.
With lots of trouble amidst traffic between Nilofar and Mehdipatnam, the duo reach Soori’s house and start off to Khairatabad. It is luckily 2:20 by the time they reach Khairatabad with the dope bag. All the way Prakash was lost by the name of the hotel expecting it to be of star ambience and was also surprised how he could miss one being a party man. To his surprise, enquiring a couple of pedestrians midway both Prakash and Soori reach an ordinary irani tea hotel with not more than 6 benches busy with people and boys serving tea and biscuits. They quickly enter the place and hide the bag underneath the bench as informed by Srinu cheating other’s eyes and wait quietly for the other party for pick up. After a tensed hour, a 15 year old kid comes on a bicycle and speaks something to the person sitting next to the cash counter. He orders for lunch sitting at the first bench; and while Prakash and Soori wait anxiously to see the other party the kid after having his lunch for around 30 mins leans down and picks the bag left by Prakash.
To their astonishment he also picks up three more similar bags beneath the same bench which went left unnoticed by Prakash and starts off on the bicycle. After taking a few seconds to digest the fact that they were only 1/4th part of the set up, they start off looking into each other’s faces and quietly follow the kid for some time. The kid reaches Khairatabad junction crossroads and handles over the bags to a bearded man waiting for him in a red maruthi van. Just when the man takes over the bags he notices Prakash and Soori watching them and start off in a rush towards Punjagutta. The duo hurriedly chases and getting caught by the afternoon traffic jams of Hyderabad, they reach the check post of Jubilee Hills where they find the empty van abandoned at a petrol bunk. After a thorough search inside the van and enquiring the people at the bunk about any information, it strikes to Prakash’s mind that he has seen the man inside and the van before.
In despair, both of them go to a cart and have tea. The time is around 5:00. Prakash then remembers that he has seen that man and the van at Ananya’s place on the night she was killed. That night when he drops her at her place at Banjara Hills Prakash asks this man for a lighter to smoke. He informs the same to Soori and both rush to Ananya’s place around 5:30. Having known that it is not so safe to enter a sealed place during the day time, they wait until it is dark. Around 6:15 they quietly enter Ananya’s place and after a thorough search for about one hour in the dark with a torch light they find in the kitchen and finding nothing they get completely tired and with all the hopes lost they reach the main door to exit, and just then they hear a beep from around the corner of the room of the entrance.
Soori points out Prakash to an object glowing randomly with a beep in the dark. Prakash reaches out for the object lying under the couch next to the main entrance door. It was a black berry phone with low battery warning. It was the same phone that Ananya spoke to somebody the night she was killed. Prakash looks at the dialed numbers and he finds that there is one number that was called from that number. Prakash tries to reach for that number from the black berry, and just then the phone switches off.
Frustrated by this act but with feeble hopes to get out of this mystery, Prakash asks Soori if he knew anybody who has a black berry mobile charger. Prakash actually has a couple of contacts who have similar phones, but he did not feel safe to contact them now for a charger. Soori tells him that he knows a bar owner at Yousufguda who has a similar piece. Prakash gives him his car keys to Soori and asks him to get the phone recharged immediately. He also gives Soori his mobile number for in case of any emergency. He informs to stay there and search more expecting to find any clues. After Soori starts off and while Prakash is searching the house for a clue, he gets a call from Sharma enquiring about his whereabouts. Prakash narrates the whole story to Sharma.
Sharma feels happy about the updates and asks Prakash if he ever knew about the dialed number on Ananya’s mobile. Sharma recollects that he never heard about that number. Becoming suspicious about the death of Ananya, and getting a strong belief that there is another person involved other than him and Prakash, Sharma asks Prakash to come to his house at Mytas, so that they could talk more and also notes down the dialed number to inform the cops about the same. Sharma tells Prakash that he is calling the cops for more information about the number. After a tired day, Prakash feels fine about the progress of things and starts off to Sharma’s place at Nizampet in an auto. On the way Prakash tries to reach Soori over Ananya’s mobile and finds it is still switched off. He then puts a message (expecting to be read by Soori once it is switched on) across the mobile with the address of Sharma’s place asking Soori to go there.
Since the murder of Ananya, her mobile numbers have been under surveillance, and so Ananya’s mobile which was used by no one after her death suddenly received a message and this triggers the mobile network people at ECIL. According to the facts by the cellular network, Ananya’s number was either majorly called to or was dialed to only 3 numbers. One belonged to Prakash, one to Sharma, and the other number was never known to anybody’s existence. Surprisingly this number was also registered to Ananya under the C.U.G (Closed User Group) of the airline company she used to work for.
The dialed number under mystery was always switched off and the police could never unveil the mystery, to whom this number belonged to. In such circumstances a message to Ananya’s mobile and that too from Prakash’s mobile alerts the cops at Panjagutta and they note down the message which asks somebody to go to an address at Nizampet. While the cops inform the cops at Banjara Hills to track down the address on SMS, they are taken to surprise when they get another call from the mobile network that a message was sent to an Airtel mobile registered to somebody at Balanagar. The weird part about the news is that the message was sent from Ananya’s mysterious number, which was idle all these days. The cops try to reach both the numbers of Ananya. The mysterious number is ringing but nobody picks it up. They also try to reach her general mobile number.
Meanwhile at Yousufguda, Soori who is having a talk with the owner of the bar gets a call on the black berry that is getting charged and he picks it up and it is the cops. They inform him that they are trying to unravel the mystery and enquire about from where Soori got the number and where is he now. Soori with a sign of discomfort and relief narrates the whole story and informs them about his whereabouts. They inform him to stay there. After disconnecting the call, he reads the message sent by Prakash and calls him back. Prakash just then reaches Sharma’s house, and scolds Soori for telling the whole story to the cops as there could arise more complications, but asks him to move from there as soon as possible. Soori apologizes and comes out of the bar to go to Sharma’s house but gets horrified to see a few men waiting from him in the same red maruthi van that was abandoned at jubilee hills check post. The men threaten him to get into the van.
Prakash knocks on the door of Sharma’s house and the latter opens the door with a glass of whisky in his hand. Sharma welcomes and Prakash feels guilty to step into the house as it is haunted by the memories of Ananya. The walls are completely covered by Ananya’s paintings and the wedding cards of their marriage are lying on the table. Sharma taps Prakash’s shoulder in grief and asks him to join him for a drink. Prakash then also discovers that Sharma was then watching a video of Ananya’s shooting profile and lowers his head in grief. Sharma then mixes a drink and offers it to Prakash and asks if he ever knew how much he loved Ananya and starts talking about her, while Prakash listens to Sharma in silence.
The red maruthi van stops at Krishna Nagar traffic lights towards Banjara Hills and Soori somehow flees from there and reaches Banjara Hills police station. He rushes to the cops there and informs them about the whole story. The cops send some men to get hold of the van. They also after listening to his story about Ananya and the black berry mystery call the mobile network people. The latter inform that the Panjagutta cops are well updated with this and they ask the cops to check with them. After reaching Panjagutta station all the clues get connected and this is what they reveal.
According to them, after a couple of day’s silence, all of a sudden a message is sent to Ananya’s mobile about an address at Nizampet. This message is followed by weird message from the mysterious number under her name to an Airtel number which read “Call Them, Find Them & Kill Them”. This is when the cops got bewildered and listening to this Soori trembles with fear and handles the black berry phone to the cops to check for the number he got a call from Yousufguda and they give him the shock of his life with two facts. The first fact is that the Airtel number was the same number that got the message from Ananya’s mysterious number and the second news is that the last dialed number on her mobile when she was murdered and the mysterious number that has created all the troubles are same.
Everybody becomes silent and one of them tries to reach to this mysterious number. It is ringing but there is no response. Soori informs that Prakash is at Nizampet and try to reach him to tell the whole story, but his mobile is out of coverage area. They start off to Nizampet, while Soori keeps trying to reach Ananya’s mysterious number. Whom does this number belong to?
Prakash and Sharma are still having their drinks talking about the updates and then Sharma gets a call from an anonymous number. He doesn’t pick up the call but disconnects it and puts his mobile in his kurta’s pocket and leaves to the rest room. Sharma on his ways asks Prakash to pause the video and the latter tries to find the remote and just then he discovers that the mobile Sharma left unattended was still lying there. He sees there are two missed calls and recollects Sharma not taking any calls.
Just while he was about to put it back where he took it from, his hand trembles with fear and it is Ananya calling. With a chill spine he picks up the call to hear Soori’s voice who says to Prakash that owner of this number is the main culprit. Soori almost faints when he gets to know that it is none other than Sharma. Prakash disconnects the call and turns behind to see Sharma standing there with a gun pointing at Prakash’s head. Prakash with a shaken voice asks Sharma that when everything was fine, why this?
Sharma starts talking – He tells that Ananya and Sharma truly loved each other but there was something more. They were the main people behind drug trafficking. Sharma with his contacts from Bangalore used the job of Ananya as an air hostess to get the drugs delivered and everything was fine until the night Ananya was murdered, she was talking to nobody but was leaving a voice mail across the mysterious number which was used by Sharma for the dark business. Expecting a threat from Ananya, he tells Prakash that he got her killed and by luck Prakash got pulled into the same. He tells Prakash that when he discovered everything about the murder, Sharma wanted to gift him a peaceful death and that is the reason he explained everything to him. Just when Sharma is about to shoot Prakash, Soori arrives with the cops and Sharma gets killed.
Looking at the dialed numbers and messages on Sharma’s mobile, they then find out that it was Sharma who sent a message to his men to get Soori killed. These men called Soori claiming to be as cops and the former lets them know where he is. Finally, after finding some dope in Sharma’s house, the truth is revealed and Prakash is freed innocent.
Soori now owns a mobile store at Khairatabad with the money given to him by Prakash and acknowledged the latter with a small gift – a Black Berry.
Dope, Dollars, and Death by Raaj K Modi aka Rajesh Saragadam is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India License.
