A young man By Prateek Lalwani

A young man in his bedroom wakes up in the middle of the night. Abandons his house, leaving behind his phone.

 

Next morning, when his servant came, he founds out that the door is open and his master is not at home. He felt a little bit suspicious that something is not right when he saw that his master has left his phone behind. He does his work and left the house. His suspicions grew stronger when he returns the next day to found out that the things haven't changed in the house, everything was the same condition, the condition in which he left them behind yesterday. He quickly calls the police.

 

Now the police have arrived at the house of the young man, the word has quickly spread like wildfire in a forest, as a result, all neighbors assembled outside his house. Everyone shocked at his sudden disappearance. It gave the wonderful opportunity for the rumors to spread in the air. Interviewing the neighbors, police found out three aspects about this man – behavioral, physical and professional.

 

He was used to living alone in his apartment because his family was in another town. 

 

To begin with his physical aspect - He was tall, had an athletic body, his skin tone was of light brown. His eyes were big and the nose was small. Had dark brown color hair. 

 

Talking about his behavioral aspect – he found out to be a gentleman, who is polite, helpful and respected everyone in his neighborhood. He had no fights with someone or grudges against anyone. Which gave the idea why he was liked by everyone in the neighborhood.

 

When it comes to his professional aspect, he was an assistant manager in a reputed bank. He was very serious about his work. He was a nice co-worker and a desirable team leader.

 

Considering all aspects of his life it was pretty clear that this was not a simple case of a missing person. There were many riddles that were needed to be solved in this case. And now the police started doing investigation deeply. 

 

Somewhere in a city a young man walking in a street. He suddenly stops, for a second, he remains still and the next moment he starts running. he leaves the main street and runs in narrower, darker and deeper streets. He took a turn and is stopped by a wall, he turns around and now he is surrounded by other men. Rana, one of the group member steps ahead, holding a knife in one hand and says "now everything is over!"

 

An old man is standing in a room, which is in the dockyard. Looking at sun setting in a sea through the window. Behind him is a large, rectangular table and a lot of armed people are standing in a bowed position. He turns around and breaks the silence, he said "after so many years of my dominance, someone has dared to challenge me, Stalin, the king of dockyard! Find him before anyone else finds him." Suddenly Stalin's attention is diverted by a suspicious looking man, he moves towards him and asks him about his name. ‘Yusuf', the man replied. Stalin questions again "I haven't seen you before? Does anyone know him?" No one replies. And then Yusuf runs. Stalin yells "catch him, don't let him escape!! He is one of the Tahir's man." But Yusuf somehow manages to escape. 

 

A young man is tried in ropes with a chair. As opens his eyes he finds himself tied with a chair. Then a man appears and he puts blindfolds on his eyes. He heard the voice of another man from behind "don't untie him without my permission. No one should know that he is here. Feed him and Take care of him". 

 

Somewhere in the eastern part of the city, we can see a skyscraper of whose top floor there is a giant room. Guarded by several gunmen. A man sitting on a chair at one end of the table. Now a man enters the room and speaks "Yusuf has an important news for your boss." Hearing this he replies call him. Yusuf enters in the room and walks towards him and bends towards his ear and whispers something in this ear. After a moment he stood up and says "I am impressed by you, Yusuf. Tell me what do you want. Name anything."

 

He is none another than Tahir. The head of the notorious Dragon gang, who controls huge areas of the eastern part of the city. 

 

Meanwhile, at the dockyard, Stalin who is already furious with Yusuf's escape and no update on the young man decides to take the help of someone, someone who can be trusted. He calls one of his old friends, who helped him establish his regime of terror and control over all the illegal activities that happened at dockyard – Aurelius, a powerful bureaucrat, who has reached in national politics. The meeting takes places at the abandoned building behind the mountain outside the city. 

 

Aurelius – Why did you call me here, at this odd hour of the night?

 

Stalin – I need your help. My whole business is at stake because of one man.

 

Aurelius – What happened Stalin?

 

Stalin – a Few weeks ago a Journalist was spying my gang operations and not only this he collected some evidence against me. But luckily, we got him. while my men were killing him, a young man saw everything. And he is sole witness of this incident. Now this young man is off the grid. Besides our police and even Tahir is searching for him.

 

Aurelius – Stalin, you called me here for this small thing. I don't have a time for these small things.

 

Stalin – Aurelius if police reach him first then no one can save us from the court and if I go to jail, then I will tell everyone about our partnership. And if Tahir gets him first, he will destroy me and then he will come for you. So, the choice is yours.

 

Aurelius – Don't you dare to threaten me. I will see what I can do.

 

 

 

It's been three weeks since the young man has been missing. Everyone is looking for a young man but nobody knows that where is the young man. 

 

Samar asks Rana that why don't he is taking the young man directly to Stalin. Rana replies you get the answer of your all the questions today in the evening. Rana is planning for his secret meeting. 

 

Meanwhile, the young man who is in a dark room, tied with a chair, hears a noise and ask for help. Someone enters the room, removes the blindfolds from the young man's eyes and unties him. As the young man opens his eye he is shocked to see the person standing in front of him.

 

Tahir, on the other hand, is keeping an eye on his rival Stalin and is preparing for his first move against him. He joins hand with other small and local gangsters around the city. He is trying to recruit as many new people as possible. He is also forming a strong alliance with local Politian, illegal traders and criminals. He is all set to take on his bigger, stronger and more organized rival. Whereas Stalin who is also keeping a tap of his surrounding is deploying his vast resources. Being the most powerful gangster in the city, he cannot ignore his rivals especially when they are as cunning as himself. Not only this even Rana has his own plans.  

 

The police commissioner, Shamshir who is getting the news of every action of Stalin and Tahir, is also preparing his department. He quickly assembles all police the police troops present in the city. Not only this he also calls for reserve police forces from all the neighboring cities.

 

 An underground secret meeting is called by Rana. In this meeting, only his close supporters are invited. He begins with his speech "brothers it's been a long time since we are working for this gang. We have given all 100 percent to raise this gang and making it the most powerful in the city. Throughout we have sacrificed a lot, many of us have lost friends and family. And I believe our sacrifice should not be wasted so easily. You all are well aware of the current scenario and what is happening the city. Our enemies are growing stronger day by day. Whereas we are lagging. And it does not fault but our leadership has become weak, Stalin is getting old and weak. He has no vision for the future. I think the time has come when we need to take control of things in our hands for the survival of gang. What do you say?" The crowd cheers and supports him.

 

While Rana is laying plans for his future. The young man is escaping. When the young man opens his eye, he saw Victoria, one of his best friends is standing in front of him. He says "what are you doing here?" She replies "I'm here to save you Kuryakin".  Kuryakin asks again "how did you figured out that I'm here?" She replies "I am a daughter of a journalist. My father shared all his work before his death and rest I figured out myself". She adds let's go before someone else come. Both of them run away. While escaping Kuryakin notices that he was kept in an abandoned factory. 

 

Stalin is discussing his strategy with Rana on how to stop Tahir. Suddenly, both of them gets a phone call. Stalin got a news that Aurelius is assassinated. This makes him furious while Rana got the word of Kuryakin's escape. Stalin immediately calls all his gang members and addresses them. "Our enemies have played there first move by assassinating my old friend Aurelius. Now it's our turn to teach them a good lesson. Thus, today, I, Stalin declared war on Tahir and all of those people who are helping him." Watching his plan failing Rana quickly devices a plan.  

 

He and Stalin order everyone to spread the word that the young man, Kuryakin is in their captivity. He is the abandoned building behind the mountain to members of Tahir's gang.

 

Words about Kuryakin's captivity reaches to Tahir. He is suspicious about this information. He thinks it might be a trap. He knows it might be risky to go there. But if they Kuryakin and then they can present him in the court as the witness. It will be a risk worth taking. Tahir is confused. 

 

"I was there, that night," says Kuryakin to Victoria. "before I could do anything your father died. I ‘m sorry." Says Kuryakin. "He was not only a great man but was also a good father. He was not afraid of anything". Says Victoria. She asks "how did you end up there?" he replies "knowing that I was the only witness, Stalin's men were following me and tried to catch several times but somehow I managed to escape. When they got the address of my house, I knew they will come. So, I left my house. Leaving my phone behind so that no one could trace me and I was hiding in the house of my friend but he betrayed me and I was caught." Stalin has many secret bases in this city how did you know that I would be here?" Kuryakin questions Victoria. "When I got the news of my father's assassination, I wanted to revenge his death. So, I checked all his files and his laptop. My father had a habit to make a digital copy of all his files. And kept them in a coded disk. And except him only I knew that code. He told me if anything happens to him, I needed to take care of myself and protect that disk". Says Victoria. "Now what to do?" asks Kuryakin. Right there is only one man who can protect us from Stalin and his men – Commissioner Shamshir. He was my father's best friend. We should go to him". Kuryakin agrees.

 

Tahir sends a team of armed fighters under the command of Yusuf to the mountain to capture Kuryakin. Receiving this Stalin prepares for the execution of the second part of the plan. He himself with his full manpower decides to attack Tahir's main base. Stalin divides his gang into two teams, the first team who will lead the attack from front side will be under the command of Stalin himself. And another team who will attack from backside will be led by Rana. Everything is set. Now everyone is waiting for their right moment.

 

Kuryakin and Victoria meet with Commissioner Shamshir. And he tells them about upcoming gang war for which he is preparing his forces. Having the holistic view of the situation, Kuryakin, Victoria and commissioner Shamshir must come up with a plan to protect the city from a gang war. 

 

Yusuf finds the abandoned building is empty and senses it was the trap to distract their focus. He quickly leaves the mountain for the main base, where is Tahir lives. Meanwhile, Stalin's team has surrounded Tahir's base from the front side while Rana's team is at the back side of the base. Everyone is waiting for Stalin's signal.

 

Whereas Commissioner Shamshir decides not to wait for an order from his superiors but to take action. He dispatches his forces to raid both Stalin's bases in the dockyard and Tahir's bases in the eastern part of the city. Kuryakin and Victoria collect the disk and are sent to a safe place. 

 

Stalin attacks on Tahir's base. Tahir is shocked by this surprise attack of Stalin. His forces are retreating. It looks like Stalin's plan is working. One by one Tahir's men is dying. When Tahir nearly dead, Yusuf arrives and surrounds Stalin's forces. With Yusuf's entry table turns around. Stalin and his team are surrounded by both sides. And Tahir and his men are now attacking, opposite what earlier they were doing. Now everything is in Rana's hands only he can save Stalin, but his plan comes into action. And he does nothing but watching Stalin dying with his team. After few hours of terrible shootout Stalin, the most powerful godfather of the city is dead. Whereas Tahir is badly injured and has lost lots of men. Yusuf has proved himself. 

 

When everyone was thinking the action has ended, Commissioner Shamshir arrives with his forces surrounds the base. Seeing police, Rana runs away with his team. After another round of the shootout, Tahir is dead. Yusuf and some members of the gang are captured by the police.

 

By the end of that day, police raided somewhat 100 places in the city, around thousand people were arrested by police, many gangsters died including the two most powerful – Stalin and Tahir, as well as some of the brave police officers,  lost their life too. People of the city are happy and safe. But there is one question that is bothering of Commissioner Shamshir, Kuryakin and in Victoria. Where is Rana? How did he escape, when everyone was either caught by police or died in the shootout? Everyone is looking for Rana and the members of Dockyard gang.

 

It has been few months since the raid was done and still police have no clue about Rana. Then one day a parcel arrives at the police station, with Commissioner Shamshir's name on it. As commissioner tries to open it, it exploded, killing Commissioner and several police officers. Everyone was shocked and sad. With this one move, Rana made it clear that the Dockyard gang is still alive and despite living in exile he rules the city. He successfully established his fear in the hearts of the people of the city as well as all the remaining gangs of the city.

 

Commissioner Shamshir's death was a huge blow for the police department. Not only they have lost their commissioner, a brave man but also, they lost a great leader as well as moral. Kuryakin and Victoria are sad and scared. They now have to do something to stop Rana from becoming the godfather of the city. 

 

A new commissioner is appointed, his name is Vikram. Despite his appointment, everyone is scared of Rana and police morale is low. He meets with Kuryakin and Victoria. Kuryakin suggests that Rana might be in the factory, where he was kept during his abduction.

 

Vikram immediately reaches factory with his forces but returned empty-handed. But Kuryakin had a strong intuition that Rana must be hiding there so, he decided to go there alone. While Victoria, again and again, is checking the disk to find some clue. And suddenly while searching the disk a file opens containing blueprints of the architecture of some of the Stalin's bases. And one of them was of the factory. As she examines the blueprint closely, she founds out something that stunned him. She runs and goes to Commissioner Vikram. 

 

Meanwhile in the factory, while searching for Rana, Kuryakin accidentally discovers a tunnel. He enters inside comes, the tunnel ended at a huge underground bunker where he is captured by Rana's men. And he finally meets with him. Rana says "I knew that someone will come down here. I should have killed you earlier. But now I have a second chance. After your no one ever able to challenge me".  

 

Commissioner Vikram and Victoria arrive at the factory and surrounds the factory. "We know that Rana you are here and we have surrounded the whole factory. Now you have nowhere to go. Come outside and surrender". Commissioner announces on the mike. Rana comes out. But seeing Kuryakin as his hostage everyone is shocked. "luckily he found me first. Now listen to me carefully let me go or I will simply kill him. the choice is yours". Says Rana. 

 

Commissioner – I will let you go it won't hurt him.

 

Rana – Well that depends on your coordination. Lower your weapons.

 

Commissioner orders his officers to put down the gun. There was a mysterious silence for a few moments, followed by the sound of gunfire for several minutes. When the gunfire stopped. There was a pile of dead bodies. Kuryakin kicked Rana tried to run, at that commission yells fire and starts shooting, at same time Victoria also starts running towards Kuryakin. Rana has shot as well as all his gang members, thus ending the decade-old Dockyard gang and an ending a period of gangsters in the city. Commissioner and several other police officers are injured. All this achieved but at cost of Kuryakin and Victoria's life.