The caller who knows Dilbagh Singh
A stranger needles Sartaj about his stalled career, says he will change his destiny, and claims to be a friend of his father.
Sartaj Singh & Ganesh Gaitonde
The cop and the gangster who chose him: the phone call that starts everything, and what follows. 10 scenes together, in story order.
10 moments · 17 min · by Favseen
- 01
- 02
Anda Pav run-around and two case numbers
The caller plays Sartaj around Metro Circle, trades insults, then hands over two police case numbers to prove who he is.
- 03
An empire amongst garbage dumps
Gaitonde says he never left Bombay, dismisses backup, and explains why he built his empire in the city's trash.
- 04
Twenty-five days to save the city
Gaitonde preaches that lives are God's stories, senses the call is being traced, and gives Sartaj a deadline.
- 05
Inside the bunker: three fathers
Face to face at last, Gaitonde says everyone dies in 25 days except a man named Trivedi, and lists the three fathers who made him.
- 06
What Gaitonde sees in every man he kills
A brawl erupts around a dead body, then Gaitonde asks Sartaj whether he too sees himself in the people he kills.
- 07
The bunker falls: 'I am Ashwathama'
Police break in as Gaitonde reveals Dilbagh Singh introduced his third father; the standoff ends with his promise that he will not die.
- 08
The leopard: Gaitonde decides to ravage Bombay
Back in the bunker Sartaj hears how Gaitonde and Mathu sat on buried gold until a leopard in the jungle made him feel like God.
- 09
The truth about the cricket bat: Dilbagh Singh fed Gaitonde in prison
Sartaj's mother reveals his father's secret posting under Parulkar, the extra rotis he carried to a dying prisoner, and why a gangster later sent a boy a bat.
- 10
Men in black rescue Gaitonde; the third father's 25-day game
Gaitonde's miracle arrives, he names the mastermind who saved him, and the countdown to save Mumbai snaps back to Sartaj in the present.