Madras Cafe at Liberty Lite from today

Friday, 23 August 2013 00:00 - - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}}

Highly discussed Madras Café the Hindi movie will be screened from today at Liberty Lite. The film is imported by Liberty Cinemas Ltd. Madras Cafe is an Indian political espionage thriller film directed by Shoojit Sircar. The main role of a Indian intelligence (Research and Analysis Wing) agent in the film is played by John Abraham, while Nargis Fakhri, who is the female lead

plays a British war correspondent. The political thriller is set against the backdrop of the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The film has been titled Madras Cafe, as the plot to kill Gandhi was hatched at the cafe. The original location of the cafe is not specified in the film. As per John Arbaham "Madras Cafe brings us closer to what changed the political history of India." The film, set in India and Sri Lanka, is a political spy thriller set against backdrop of the Sri Lankan civil war. Vikram Singh (John Abraham) is an Indian Army special officer who is appointed by the intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing to conduct covert operations in Sri Lanka shortly after Indian Peace Keeping Force was forced to withdraw. As he journeys to Sri Lanka, with the intention of disrupting a rebel group, he discover the larger issue. There he meets a British journalist (Jaya) who is there to reveal the truth about the civil war, and in the process uncovers a conspiracy.