Sooner rather than later, there will be a blockbuster movie, ‘Guwahati Files’. I have learnt from reliable sources that the movie contains sensational shots and conversations between the bosses in the BJP and the brave rebels from the Shiv Sena. There are the usual elements—money bags exchanged and contracts signed for petrol pumps and, of course, luxurious flats in metros. There is even a scene that resembles the one in the iconic mafia film—The Godfather—where the character Don Vito Corleone says coolly and firmly, “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse”. Those who have seen the chilling drama know that the refusal of the offer will have dangerous consequences. Nobody is sure whether the shots and dialogues in the ‘Guwahati Files’are real or morphed—we are all too familiar with such ‘files’ and tend to believe them as we have no means to check their veracity.
‘Guwahati Files’ begins, not in Assam, but in Gujarat, in its diamond city—Surat—and reaches its climax in Guwahati. The ‘endgame’, however, has not yet come. The ‘endgame’ is not just political but also mathematical. Even the mafia dons don’t really know such advanced algebra. And when politicians play number games or mathematicians play political games, there is bound to be a blunder that cannot be understood or explained.
This number game began with 17 so-called rebels going to Surat. Then two of the ‘magnificent 17’ managed to “escape”, reducing the rebel count to 15. But when the 15 were secretly escorted to a private plane by the Gujarat police, suddenly there were 37 rebels! How the number went up from 17 to 37 is a mystery being explained in the ‘Guwahati Files’. That is where the ‘Godfather’ comes in.
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