Legal Fiction

A late-night phone call from his ex-girlfriend Anasuya forces writer Arjun Kumar to leave his wife and home in Delhi and travel to the mofussil town of Noma on then UP-Bihar border. The reason - Anasuya's husband, Rafique Neel, a college professor and theatre director, has mysteriously disappeared. Soon after he arrives, Arjun realizes that things are not as they seem: the police are refusing to register a missing-persons case, Rafique's student Janaki has also disappeared, and the locals are determined to turn it into a case of love jihad. And when Arjun begins to dig deeper, what he finds endangers him and everyone around him. Set in today's India, Legal Fiction is an existential thriller and a chilling parable of our times.