Mumbai Confidential

Five years ago, Arjun Kadam used to be a cop, a rising star in the ranks ofthe Mumbai Encounter Squad'�an elite unit tasked by the powers that be tocarry out extrajudicial executions of notorious gangsters. But the death ofhis pregnant wife at childbirth derailed his life and set him off on aspiral of depression and drug addiction, a pale shadow of his former self.When Kadam is the victim of a hit-and-run that also claims the life of astreet urchin, he goes into coma for a month. Upon waking up, he finds anew sense of purpose and pursues the investigation into the identity of thedriver after the cops close the case for lack of leads. His investigationtakes him on a journey through the deep dark heart of Mumbai'�from theglitzy tinsel of Bollywood, to the dank depths of the Mumbai Underworld,where the line between the police and the criminals has been blurred beyondrecognition by his ex-colleagues on the Encounter Squad, who are nowde-facto gangsters in uniform, running the same extortion rackets they weretasked to eradicate. Obsessed with his mission, Kadam sets off a desperategame of intrigue and deception that pits him against the very machine ofviolence and corruption he once helped create.From writer Saurav Mohapatra (WITCHBLADE, MUMBAI MACGUFFIN, DEVI, THESADHU) and artist Vivek Shinde (SNAKEWOMAN, PROJECT: KALKI) comes ahard-boiled tale of crime, punishment, and redemption in the seedyunderbelly of Mumbai.