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...cause by not doing

anything stringent.

Why are you not

nipping them in the bud?

It takes you ten years

to prove a person guilty.

Don't you think this is a

question mark on your ability?

All this should stop. This

whole bloody system is flawed.

If you don't clean

up this mess then...

...we will have to do

something about it.

I know there will be an

imbalance in our civilized society.

But what can we do?

Mr. Rathod, I am convinced the

train blasts were not just...

...a terrorist activity

but it was a question.

The question was, we are

going to keep killing you...

...what can you do? Yes!

They've asked us this question.

First on a friday then

they repeated it on tuesday.

I am just replying on a Wednesday.

Your, add-salt-to-taste philosophy,

is absolutely wrong.

This is not the correct approach.

I know. But right now

I am not concerned...

...about the

approach but the results.

Did someone of yours

die in these blasts?

Why? Should I wait until someone

close to me dies in such a dirty way?

And only then will you feel

that this step is justified?

If you want to know then listen.

There was someone

close to me on that train.

A kid... Must be around 21 years.

Don't know his name.

Used to meet me everyday in

the first class compartment.

While getting into the train he

used to greet me with a hello...

...and I used to return the courtesy.

There were many such people.

We did not know each other's names...

...Just knew each

other through 'hellos'!

With a smile he had shown me...

...his engagement

ring just a day before.

He was very happy.

The next day I missed the

train and I escaped death.

But he didn't.

After that when I went by train...

...there was nobody whom I knew.

The compartment was

full of strangers.

So you are doing this

for those dead people.

No. I am not that

emotional and sentimental.

I always knew what loss is.

I have seen my relatives die.

But this is unacceptable.

None of these b...

pardon my language...

But none of these bastards

will decide when I should die.

They are proud of '92

and '93 and of 2006.

They are proud of Gujarat,

Mumbai, Delhi and Malegoan.

I am proud of myself that

I am killing such people.

I am not a saviour.

And I am not doing this

for anyone else but myself.

I only want that when my

child goes out he should...

...travel without fear on buses,

trains or anywhere else.

I cannot understand you.

That's because my reasons

and demands are a bit strange.

Maybe.

- Be definite. Yes or no.

Yes.

If they kill 200 of

us then it is okay...

...but if I kill only 4

of them then it's strange?

This is not your fault.

This is what is

expected of a common man.

Live, tolerate and

die like a common man.

Take yourself for example till the

time you did not know who I am...

...you were afraid of me

and taking me seriously.

And now that I have told

you I am a common man...

...you've got back some

confidence in your voice.

You must be thinking

this not a terrorist but...

...just a common man. I will easily

catch him. - No, that is not so.

It better not be because all the

bombs are still where they were.

Mr. Rathod. Arif.

Now everything depends on you two...

...whether this would

be my last call or not.

Ten minutes later Naina Roy will

reach there with her cameraman.

There will also be a doctor

and an ambulance with them.

I want confirmed reports on

TV that Ibrahim Khan is dead.

If this happens then

I will immediately...

...tell you where the bombs are.

But if it doesn't then you are

responsible for what happens next.

Arif, I'll call you back.

- Yes sir.

Now what will you do?

First I will clean my ear.

I am finding it hard to hear.

Sir, I want you to

take this decision.

Do we have any other

choice than to do what he says?

No sir.

But it is wrong.

- That it is.

What else can I do?

We can do nothing.

What is all this?

Child, what is 2 + 2?

What?

Ten minutes from now you

will go to runway number 4 and...

...cover a very important news.

Didn't I promise this would be...

...the most

important day of your life?

Go see for yourself.

Did you just address me as a child?

You have heard right. Bye.

He is a traitor! He knows nothing.

The matter is about our community.

Yours and mine.

It is about my brothers

and sisters and our home.

It is about our rights! If we

are together nobody can harm us.

Didn't we teach the Americans

and British a very good lesson?

Nobody could stop us.

But you made a

mistake by coming to India.

A common man got a

bit upset and now...

...not only is he stopping you

but he is killing you as well.

I am not afraid to die...

I do not fear death. Why am I alive?

For a Cause.

And for that cause I am

willing to sacrifice myself.

But then I want to

live to wage this battle.

And for my brothers and sisters,

my community...

Why are you laughing?

I see that you are afraid of death.

This is an accident.

- Yes sir, this is an accident.

I must get a detailed report of

this accident by tomorrow morning.

Personally.

You will get it.

Sir!

- Heads!

Yes sir.

You should've told me first.

We don't have time. Look over there.

Did you trace the call?

- I am tracing it.

Sir, let him go. I was wrong.

He's not just good. He is the best.

Sir, I am not sure this is the man.

How similar is he? - I can...

- Is he at least 1 percent similar?

Sir...

Deepak, right now I am at

the Juhu Aviation Base where...

...four terrorists were

killed while trying to escape.

The names of these

terrorists are Khursheed Lala...

...Iqlak Ahmed, Mohammad

Zaheer and Ibrahim Khan.

Naina Roy...

Mr. Rathod!

- Tell me.

I did not plant any other bomb.

I know that.

- Nice talking to you sir.

In this operation a police inspector

has been seriously injured.

His name is Arif Khan.

You can see him right now

going into the ambulance.

And now we have with us

Inspector Jai Singh who...

...will give us all the

information about this incident.

Sir, tell us how did this happen?

As a routine process

we were shifting...

...these terrorists to another place.

Excuse me!

- Yes.

What's the time?

My watch is not working.

Your bag seems quite heavy.

Excuse me.

Yes, tell me.

Have you left or not?

I was just leaving

when I met someone.

Who is it? A friend of yours?

I don't know yet.

Please come home. It's getting late.

- I am on my way.

Sorry. Were you saying something?

I was saying your

bag seems quite heavy.

Can I drop you somewhere?

That's my vehicle.

That police jeep?

Yes.

- No thanks. I live nearby.

Are you sure?

- Sure.

Prakash Rathod.

I am...

He told me his name...

...but I can't tell

that name to anybody...

A man recognizes

the religion by name.

We all knew that a common man

is disturbed by these things.

But never ever imagined that a

common man can go to such stage.

One common man had the guts.

This incident and this case

is not registered in any file.

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