Silent Bullet in the Pink City

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"Silent Bullet in the Pink City"

A police-procedural Bollywood thriller set in Jaipur over one Valentine's Day

CAST & SECRET OBJECTS

SSP Aditi Rathore 34 newly-transferred IPS officer carries an unregistered .38 revolver stained with one unsent resignation letter

Inspector Kabir Sheikh 29 forensics genius who never speaks on scene keeps a torn cinema ticket from 14 Feb 2013 in his evidence kit

Constable Meher Qureshi 23 rookie driver hides her twin sister’s broken police badge inside her beret

Crime lord Rana Shamsher 40 ex-cop turned kingpin owns a pink-stone palace and a lipstick-red Bentley with blood-proof seats

City of Jaipur the largest silent witness

DAY AT A GLANCE

05:17 sunrise briefing at Jaipur Police HQ

08:00 body of a city judge found inside Hawa Mahal with a single jasmine petal on the tongue

12:00 autopsy reveals death by silent bullet no rifling on slug

16:00 chase through Johari Bazaar

20:00 hostage crisis at Amber Fort

23:59 last confession under the moonlit sky

00:03 case closed yet reopened

PROLOGUE 00:00–05:16

The control room clock ticks like a loaded cylinder.

A red landline rings once stops.

A single voice message plays:

"Five murders before midnight. Try to hear the silence."

ACT I CRIME SCENE 05:17–08:00

SSP Aditi Rathore steps into Hawa Mahal at dawn.

Judge Agnihotri sits on the stone lattice bench eyes wide open a jasmine petal stuck to his tongue like a postage stamp from hell.

Inspector Kabir Sheikh kneels tweezers out a bullet shaved smooth as river stone.

No shell casing no gunpowder residue no sound reported by guards.

Constable Meher Qureshi logs every footstep.

Aditi notices a faint lipstick mark on the petal—shade “Pink Panther.”

ACT II AUTOPSY & LINK 08:01–12:00

Forensics lab basement.

Kabir drops the bullet into gel it travels 20 cm without tumbling impossible for any known barrel.

He scribbles on a whiteboard:

Silent propulsion → air-gun? → but velocity too high.

Meher runs facial recog on CCTV spots Rana Shamsher’s red Bentley parked near Hawa Mahal 04:11 a.m.

Aditi’s phone buzzes encrypted text:

"Check 2013 Valentine ticket stub."

She opens Kabir’s kit finds the torn stub—movie “Gulab Gang” seat F-7.

Flashback 2013

Young Kabir on a date with fiancée Priya same seat.

Gunshot inside cinema Priya dies silent bullet same MO.

Cold case reopened.

ACT III CHASE 12:01–16:00

Pink sandstone lanes.

Aditi and Kabir tail the red Bentley on bullet bikes.

Meher blocks alleys with PCR vans.

Rana escapes into the underground bazaar tunnels once used by smugglers for Jaipur jewels.

Kabir picks up a discarded lipstick bullet—shade Pink Panther.

Meher finds her twin’s badge near a drain cover badge cracked like a silent scream.

ACT IV HOSTAGE 16:01–20:00

Amber Fort ramparts.

Rana live-streams five hostages wearing bomb vests synced to city power grid.

Demands: release of ex-cops in Tihar and a free passage to Dubai.

Aditi negotiates via WhatsApp voice notes no words only emojis.

Kabir calculates wind speed and echo corridors.

Meher drives a disguised catering van loaded with tear-gas disguised as rose water.

20:17 synchronized breach.

Kabir fires a custom-made silent bullet from 300 m takes out Rana’s trigger hand.

Hostages freed.

Rana captured but smiles:

"There was a sixth bullet."

ACT V CONFESSION 20:01–23:59

Interrogation room lit by single bulb.

Rana reveals he was Aditi’s batchmate academy topper forced out for whistle-blowing.

He designed the silent bullet—compressed nitrogen sabot—to kill only those who buried truth.

2013 cinema: Judge Agnihotri ordered cover-up.

Today: four more corrupt judges on his list.

He hands Aditi a USB.

Footage shows Meher’s twin sister Zoya the undercover officer shot by same bullet.

Meher breaks down badge in hand.

EPILOGUE 00:00–00:03

Aditi files resignation but keeps the .38.

Kabir burns the cinema ticket flame smells of old popcorn and regret.

Meher pins the broken badge above her desk.

City clock strikes twelve.

A new silent bullet awaits in the dark.