Boss (2013)

Boss
DirectorBaba Yadav
CountryIndia
Budget$630,000
Box office$950,000

Plot

At a time when Mumbai Police headed by Police Commissioner Binayak Roy announce that the much dreaded Mafia Raj is completely wiped out in the city and there are no more crime lords in Mumbai, a rookie named Surya lands in the country's commercial capital with an intention to become a Mafia Don. His friend Shibu receives him and brings him to Dharavi. He offers him shelter and tells him that he would soon fetch him a job so that he can settle down in life. But Surya wants to carve an identity for himself, by reorganizing Mumbai's Mafia Raj and eventually rule Mumbai. He then mocks as a cop and gets his first bounty, and then he forms a gang of his own. Surya meets up with a MLA Gopinath Shivalkar alias "Gopi Sahib", who is in trouble and offers him help. Surya begins recruiting criminals and gangsters in Mumbai and starts to extort people for money. Surya further helps the Dharavi locals to clear their debts by making his henchmen rob the original copies of the loan documents in the local branch of Bank of Maharashtra and destroy the bank records. While the locals hail him as their saviour, Surya slowly gains momentum and gets feared for extortion.

Meanwhile, Surya also knowingly tries to get romantically involved with a model named Rusha, Police Commissioner Binayak's daughter, in order to safeguard himself from Binayak. In the process, he actually falls for the girl and tries for her acceptance. One day, Surya learns that Central Minister Rajshekhar Sinha, who aspires to be the next PM, has sent some assassins to kill him. Surya tricks the men into believing that he is a guide sent to help them where he plants bombs in their food that explodes, resulting in a shootout. While escaping, Surya sees Rusha, who has now learned of his true nature. When arrested, Surya accepts that he trapped her, but now he truly loves her. In the meantime, Surya gets surrounded by police and Binayak arrests him. However, Binayak is forced to free Surya after his henchmen kidnap Rusha. Surya promises to give up crime in order to live with Rusha, but he decides to set up a business which is untouchable by the police, after his proposal is turned down.

In the course of the film, Surya's friendship with Gopi gets stronger, and so does his political connections. Surya sets up a company named Surya Exports & Imports, as a front for his vigilante acts. Surya reveals his plan to grow his network of organized crime all over India. In order to set up branch offices all over the country, Surya recruits local gangsters for staff and begins to forcibly extract a 2% tax on every contract made in the respective areas. Eventually, he becomes a billionaire, and during the inauguration of his Business Bank, reveals his thirst for power, but not money, to Binayak, further citing the decline in crime rate significantly after recruiting the gangsters, and expressing his desire to help the needy. He also claims that he believes in war but not morality stating that he wants to rid India of crime.

Eventually, Surya also helps Gopi to become the Mayor of Mumbai by defeating Arun Gokhle, who is backed up by Rajshekhar. Foremostly, Arun Ghokle goes against Rajshekhar and talks to the police about Rajshekhar's illegal activities and scams. Thereafter he gets endorsed and later killed by Rajshekhar, under the police custody. Learning that Rajshekhar is planning to get both Binayak and Rusha killed, Surya rushes to their house but fails to save Binayak, who tells him to kill Rajshekhar in his final moments. Surya then reveals to Rusha that he was an American-born Indian whose philanthropist parents were cheated and killed by Rajshekhar. As a child, Surya tried to enlist the help of the police but finding none, and he ended up stabbing and shooting Jaidev publicly. The violent murder of his parents, who were the victims of political corruption, haunted him and the attitude of people towards an orphan while growing up made him hate the society.

In his pursuit of power and achieving his goal of getting India rid of the crime, he shifts his attention towards the upcoming Indian parliament elections. Surya meets Ravikanth Sahay, the head of the opposition party through Gopi, and offers him 350 billion (US$5.5 billion) for election campaigning along with the promise to make him the next PM of India. Surya spends crores of rupees per constituency in the nation and also reveals Rajshekhar's illegal affairs, making him unable to contest in the elections.

A disoriented Rajshekhar kidnaps Rusha and Surya arrives to rescue her. In anger towards Surya, Rajshekhar reveals that he has been disqualified from the election in spite of having a lot of power and gaining public sympathy, due to Surya's tactics. However, Surya gets into a fight with Jaidev's henchmen and leaves them all dead, except one who holds Rusha at knifepoint. Rajshekhar agrees to free Rusha instead of Surya's death. Surya shoots himself before shooting both Rajshekhar and the henchman to death. Rusha accepts her love for Surya, and Binayak, who has come round, agrees with them. Besides, Surya also succeeds installing both Gopi as the CM of Mumbai and Ravikant as the PM of India.

While recovering in the hospital, Surya delivers a message to the public, citing that there is no importance of a life that have no target; and also forbidding to leave a single place of one to anyone. The film ends with Surya's motivational dialogue, "Be the King of your own Kingdom."

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