Badnaam / Infamous

2018, 120 minutes

Mission Impossible meets Dragon Tattoo

Sonia Khanna is an Indian girl from Southall, born and brought up in a simple middle class family with simple means. She finds her life in Southall claustrophobic and cannot wait to get out of there. Sonia is in love with an Indian boy from Southall who aspires to be a successful singer and musician. Together they dream of a life in the glitz and glamour of London away from the prison of Southall. Things go South when Sonia is framed in a drug running racket and accidentally kills a cop while trying to escape. Sonia and Kabir’s dreams shatter around them as she’s sent away for 15 years. While in prison, a corporate looking woman, Kaaya, walks into Sonia’s life. She offers her a new life, a new identity and a second chance. She runs a billion dollar organisation that trains women to be agents in espionage. The organisation is run by one Mr. Black, who no one has seen but has the power to make and destroy lives. But to get a new life she had to kill this one. Sonia is at a crossroads. Ultimately she decides to give Kabir a chance to a better life without her and agrees to join Kaaya. But there is one rule to this game. Once you come in, you cannot get out. Sonia is whisked off from prison and given a new identity, while being trained to be an agent. She goes from being Sonia to Pari. However, her past comes back to haunt her when chance makes her cross paths with Kabir again. Realising that the love of his life was alive, he pursues her. Pari tries to warn him but not before it’s too late. Kaaya finds out that Pari had reconnected with her past. Pari is left with two choices - let Kabir die or take him and run for their lives. However they don’t get too far as Kaaya and her men catch up with them and kill Kabir in front of Pari’s eyes. Heartbroken, devastated, all Pari wants is revenge. From Kaaya, Mr. Black and from the whole damn organisation. She would destroy them all, even if she had to die for it.

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