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Engl 4081
Dr. Mary Adams
Modern Gladiator
can
devastating.
return
back
Many
lives
to
have
democracy.
been
lost.
The
war
Cities
has
been
have
been
surround the valley of Kashmir with the army and then attack the
militants with his own private aerial battalion. The plan has to
work, for peace, for democracy, for unity and for freedom. The
general knows that. The general has to motivate his army. He
cheers them up. He tells them that this last fight is for the
ultimate glory, for ultimate freedom and they have to win it to
ensure
their
children
live
in
free
country
in
peace
and
militants
surrender
and
the
Indian
flag
finally
waves
and
the
bloody
war
is
finally
over.
After
his
India, for the first time after the turmoil of 1970s, is under
President's rule. The old President is the commander in chief of
the
army
and
the
de-facto
ruler
of
the
whole
country.
The
parliament doesn't hold any power any more and the democratic
system has been eliminated due to the civil war. Yet, the old
President wants to return to democracy but he knows the whole
nation is too fragile for an election. He is dying, he is sick
and he has to give his powers to someone who is strong enough to
rule the great nation but is selfless enough to give up power at
the right time and bring back democracy. He trusts no one in his
cabinet. He only knows one man, who could do this. The savior Maximus!
The President asks the general to take over the presidency for
the time being so when the time is right, he can return the
government
back
to
parliamentarian
democracy.
The
president
them
to
protect
the
people
and
to
ensure
their
freedom.
He
yet
situation
to
cowardly
take
man
control
who
of
the
wants
to
use
government
the
and
present
set
up
war
ridden
nation.
He
tells
his
father
of
his
powerful
and
democracy. He won the war in the battle field but now this is a
complete different war to win. A war even more dangerous than
the one he fought. Only this morning, he had emailed his family
he will arrive back home soon, but now it seems he would be away
from home for some more time, a long time. Maybe he will not go
home ever. Suddenly the silence of the night and his train of
thoughts is broken by the ring of his cell phone. The president
has died, he hears in shock, and he has been summoned to the
Rashtrapati Bhavan immediately.
with
Maximus'
support,
he
will
conquer
the
world.
wants
against
the
dead
Shaurya
and
leaves.
Maximus
can
pose,
immediately.
to
establish
president's
Shaurya,
issues
dictatorial
wishes.
He
knowing
how
shoot
at
state,
refuses
something
to
dangerous
sight
warrant
support
a
threat
for
him
Maximus decides to call up the media and inform them the real
truth about the assassination of the President and Shaurya's
takeover plans. He plans to use the uniform of the commander in
chief to prove his point. But before he can do anything, a
bullet crashes the window and flies just past him and within a
minute they're bullets flying all over the house. He can see two
police officers firing, he realizes, they have been ordered to
kill him. Maximus desperately jumps to the cupboard to grab his
gun but a bullet hits his hand. He is wounded but still too well
a trained an army officer to handle two hitmen. He easily kills
them, and then he wears the uniform given to him by the slain
president and drives off to his home to protect his family.
city
is
barricaded
but
he
has
to
reach
home,
before
Shaurya's men kill his wife and son. So, he drives on. Somehow,
he does reach home, but it is too late, and he finds his dead
wife and son and a totally ravaged and burnt house. He collapses.
Maximus opens his eyes, where is he? Aah, his hand hurts. He
gets up. Some strange men looking at him. Which is this place?
been
killed
in
an
unfortunate
attack
and
Shaurya
has
could
Maximus
uphold
the
sanctity
of
the
uniform
the
President gave him? How could Maximus avenge his family's murder?
How can Maximus save his nation from this new enemy? He now,
even has no army, he is all by himself!
to
the
television,
nation.
mobile
and
Soon,
the
laptop.
video
The
is
whole
playing
world
is
in
every
aghast.
is
limited
if
he
doesn't
kill
Maximus
soon.
Shaurya
by
guns
and
the
Coliseum
replaced
by
restaurants,
surviving
all
the
shoot
outs,
reaches
out
to
his
Shaurya gets to know about the brewing coup and realizes that
Maximus will kill him, sooner or later. He also realizes if he
kills Maximus now, he will loose the public support. He secretly
intercepts the battalion and gets them arrested. He also gets
Maximus arrested but to appease the public decides to embrace
him in a public display at Red Fort, New Delhi. But, Shaurya
knows, Maximus has to die, he knows every day Maximus lives is
one day less in Shaurya's life. Shaurya has planned Maximus'
death. The next day, Maximus will be embraced by the President
in full public view and then shot by a secret assassin.
the
uniform
of
the
Commander
in
chief
and
conceals
the
assassin.
The
president
dies,
the
crowd
is
stunned
the
parliament
and
orders
the
freeing
of
all
the
political