(sirens wailing in distance)
(solemn music)
This is the first time I'm seeing you smile.
It's nice.
Take this.
MARATHI CHAV
My daughter was killed in an accident.
We're moving to Mumbai.
(sobs)
This is her bed. Careful.
-Suhas... -Sit down. Sit.
Have this.
(doctor) It is an 18-month package.
It includes hormone replacement therapy,
breast augmentation, facial feminisation,
orchiectomy, tracheal shave, voice feminisation,
and, finally, a vaginoplasty.
-(heart monitor beeping) -(subtle music)
(mysterious music)
(jewellery clinking)
(title song)
(Copycat) How can you say that
when I've surrounded you with only love.
What do you mean?
I brought your family together.
I'm responsible for your son Tejas' happiness.
Now I'll end everything.
I will turn this happiness into devastation.
Tejas, she is a part of your life.
Who makes you happy, Tejas?
My wife, Tanvi.
How did you meet Tanvi? Did someone introduce you to her?
Tejas... Who?
(doorbell rings)
Coming.
(phone buzzing)
-Divya? -I forgot my purse.
It's 2 a.m.!
Just take whatever you want. I'm going back to sleep.
-(phone buzzes) -Who's calling now?
-Yes, Teju? -Tanvi... Thank God.
(door thuds)
Tanvi, listen carefully.
If Divya comes, don't open the door.
Tanvi, Divya is the copycat.
-She's the killer. -What?
(gasps and grunts)
(Tejas) Tanvi?
(Tanvi groaning in pain)
Tanvi?
Tanvi...
-(snaps fingers) -(tense music)
Tanvi?
(tense music continues)
(torch clicks)
(liquid pours)
(clinking in glass)
D-Divya...
(spoon clinks in glass)
Drink up.
(chair screeches)
Divya...
Please... Please tell me this is not true.
You can't be the copycat killer.
(gasps)
The name could have been better.
But it's true, Tanvi.
How can it be true? You're my best friend.
It's a long story, babes.
The entire credit for this goes to your mother-in-law.
I came back to life because of her.
I learnt to live again.
But finally, like everyone, she too betrayed me.
Look, Divya, I don't understand.
All I know is you'd never hurt your best friend
because I've never wronged you.
And you think I've wronged other people?
No, Divya.
Was it my fault that, despite being a woman,
I was born in a man's body?
(gasps)
-Divya... -Yes, Tanvi.
In a different life, I used to be Suhas.
I've endured that pain
for... for 18 months.
I have been through hell.
I bled day and night.
And only then could I become the perfect woman.
But even after that, I was wronged.
I'm so sorry.
Because this world is wrong.
That's why I decided
that every wrongdoer must be punished!
D-Divya, no... Please, I'm your best friend.
-Divya, please don't-- -Quiet!
(sobs)
Just keep quiet!
(continues sobbing)
(exclaims loudly in fright)
(sobbing) Divya...
Now you'll be punished for Mrs. Deshpande's deceit.
(phone vibrates)
Were you waiting for my call?
Yes, Divya.
It feels better to talk without hiding who I am.
So you must have found out everything now.
Not everything.
I'm yet to know a lot from you.
If we meet face to face, we may understand each other better.
That's true.
Is Tejas listening to us?
Hello, Divya.
(laughs)
Family reunion! Wow!
Good.
I called so that you could say your final goodbye to Tanvi.
Divya, who you've taken with you
is very precious to me.
That's why she has to die.
I know you don't want to harm Tanvi.
If you did, you'd have done it already.
Mrs. Deshpande, you don't know me fully.
But, Divya, I do know you.
As you said,
you and I are alike.
We punish evil people, not the innocent.
I was the one who betrayed you.
Your anger is towards me, not that poor girl.
That's why I am saying...
let her go and take me instead.
That's a good offer.
Doing so will make your dream come true.
We'll sit face to face.
And then, you can give me whatever punishment you see fit.
Okay.
You in exchange for Tanvi.
Thank you, Divya.
I'll call with details about how and where.
Your luck is good.
Your mother-in-law really loves you.
That's very risky.
No.
This is the only way.
This copycat was created because of me.
But she could kill you.
Tanvi and your life matter more to me.
Let me do at least this much for you.
Please.
The team leaves in five minutes. Pallavi Sonawane.
Through this, we can track you.
-You'll be fine. -I know.
-Good to go, sir. -Okay.
This is a civilian headset. Keep it as a disguise.
Check your respective devices.
Tejas, I can't provide any more backup.
It's still an undercover operation.
I understand, sir.
Sir. I'm sorry, sir, but I have something to say.
Tell me.
It could be that this is all Mrs. Deshpande's master plan,
and she has suggested this idea to the copycat
so she can escape from here.
(eerie music)
I know it's a possibility, Pallavi.
But to save Tanvi's life, I'm willing to take this risk.
(phone vibrates)
The copycat.
-Hello. -Infinity Arcadia Mall, Wadala.
Main area, level one, in two hours.
Okay.
(thrilling music)
(phone vibrates)
Yes, Divya.
Enter from the main floor of the mall on level one.
You'll find some colourful mannequins.
Stop there.
I'll call you with the next steps.
Tejas, I know you've come with your entire team.
If I see anyone on the main floor
aside from Mrs. Deshpande and you,
then remember,
you will never see Tanvi again.
Only Mrs. Deshpande and I will enter the main floor.
Divya will be watching.
So I won't be able to communicate with you.
We're in a public space, so no guns.
-Let's go. -(team) Okay, sir.
Let's go.
(tense music)
Where are you hiding, Divya?
(phone vibrates)
We're near the mannequins, like you said.
I know.
It's time for you to say bye to your mom.
-I want to see Tanvi first. -Shut up, Tejas.
You don't have an option.
Now, give her the phone and don't follow her.
Hello, Divya.
Take the escalator behind you and come to the first floor.
Okay, Divya.
Remember…
No one loves you more than your mother.
-Thank you. -Enough of the bloody drama.
Escalator now!
I'm coming.
(tense music resumes)
I'm on the escalator.
Get off and turn.
-Praveer, come in. -Yes, sir.
She's on your floor.
-Yes, sir, clear visual. -Good.
Haniya.
Take a left at the first pillar.
She's turned left.
Sir, you should be able to see her.
Yeah, I can see her.
(Divya) Do you see a women's clothing store ahead?
-I do. -Come towards it and take a left.
Walk straight and enter the men's clothing store.
She's entering the men's section, sir.
-Praveer. -Yes, sir. I am following her.
She's going towards the footwear section.
Okay.
Go past the three mannequins in front of you.
Visual in sight. Yes.
She has crossed the pillar.
Take a turn and cross the luggage section.
Take a left from there.
Excuse me.
Go towards the back of the store.
-Where is she going? -Towards the back of the store.
Take a right ahead and enter the women's footwear section.
I've turned right.
Sir, I don't have a visual.
What do you mean you don't have a visual?
Fuck!
(thrilling music)
Excuse me.
You'll see an emergency exit.
Take that to parking level 4.
Okay.
What the fuck! How did she get away?
Sir, she just passed the pillar. Sorry, sir.
Sir, she's headed to the parking area.
Through the emergency exit.
There, the emergency exit! Come on!
The signal is weak, sir. Check the signal.
Sir, I'm not able to figure out which level.
(music softens)
-Hello, disciple. -Phone.
Sir, I checked P3. There's no one.
I'm checking P2 now.
Put this on.
Sir, unable to find anything. Shit!
Come out.
There's no one here either. I'm checking upstairs.
Go.
-Get in. -Hold on, Divya.
Take care of Tejas and yourself.
Go.
Haniya, any luck with the signal?
We have signal, sir. She's on P4.
P4.
(music intensifies)
(car engine whirs)
Divya!
Sir, they are going towards the back exit of the mall.
Rajeev, Aziz, they are coming towards the exit.
Be ready, and just shoot her if necessary.
Tejas!
Fuck.
-Are you okay? -I am.
-Did she-- -She didn't do anything.
I'm perfectly okay.
Sir, the signal is breaking. Just check why this is happening!
Rajeev, Aziz, any visual?
No, sir. We're in position.
(suspenseful music)
Sir, they have stopped at the mall exit.
What do you mean?
The transmitter is not moving.
Shit.
Sir, I told you Mrs. Deshpande and the copycat
have cooked this up together.
Praveer, check all the CCTV footage
-in the mall. -Yes, sir.
Find out the number plate of the car.
-It was a grey colour vehicle. Go. -Okay.
Tanvi.
Can you tell me anything about the place she took you to?
I was quite groggy, Tejas. I don't remember clearly.
It was a deserted place.
No noise or sound in that building.
It felt like no one lives in that building.
Anything else?
Tejas, is there something called Zylocomp?
Why do you ask?
When I was there, I saw the name Zylocomp Technologies
in a few places.
On the name plate, on the cartons...
even on the mugs.
-Haniya. -Yes, sir.
I need every detail about Divya's life.
The bank statements from her house, phone records, everything.
Find out if Divya had any connection to Zylocomp.
Checking right away, sir.
(chuckles) I didn't have Shrewsbury biscuits.
But this is all I've got. Sorry.
Your smile... I can't believe it.
What?
25 years ago, I saw this same smile at my restaurant.
I remember what you said then.
This is the first time I'm seeing you smile.
It's nice.
When your father said
you died in an accident...
MARATHI CHAV
(Divya) ...I cried a lot.
My mother couldn't understand what had happened to me.
Why was I so upset over the death of a stranger?
But only I knew what you had done for me.
Mrs. Deshpande, it's strange, isn't it?
You became my messiah, changed my life...
And then, the same messiah ruined my life.
I never meant to deceive you.
But I did it for my son.
I'm sure you understand that.
Divya, today you and I sit face to face.
I want you to bare your soul to me.
I want to know everything about you.
Tell me.
I was never Suhas.
I was stuck in a man's body.
After waiting many years,
I could finally become Divya.
And then I started my new life.
I started a new job in Mumbai.
New friends.
A new best friend, Tanvi.
And for the first time,
boys started showing interest in me.
Sir, when I had checked
the list of employees at Zylocomp Technologies earlier,
I only focused on those with a criminal record.
But, sir, I just got the complete list from the HR manager.
Divya is on the list. Look, sir.
Until two years ago, she worked at Zylocomp Technologies.
And then, one day,
my life turned upside down.
Our company received the contract to digitise
the Pune court records.
And behold my good fortune, Mrs. Deshpande.
Your secret court file landed on my desk.
When I saw my dad's photo in that file,
the man who used to beat me up mercilessly,
I was stunned.
My file could have gone to anyone else.
It's sheer chance!
It was God's will, Mrs. Deshpande.
By reading that file, I learnt...
you were alive.
And I realised that I could actually meet
the messiah that gave me a new life.
I reached Hyderabad Jail.
But over there, I was told that Zeenat doesn't meet anyone.
So, I had to use another method.
I bribed the assistant warden, and in return,
he told me about your recent psychiatric evaluation.
He stole the psychiatrist's file and gave it to me.
And since these files are confidential,
even the police didn't have access to them.
While I already had the details of your murders
and arrest from the court files,
the psychiatrist's file helped me learn
the deepest secrets of your life.
That's when I understood, Mrs. Deshpande,
how you became who you are.
I decided that, even if I can't meet you,
in return for what you did for me,
I would do my best to keep your family happy.
That's when you found out about Tejas.
Yes. I was now going to become a part of Tejas' life.
Please give me change, sir.
I found out that Ajoba and he visited Siddhivinayak
every Tuesday.
I started going there too.
And we became friends.
The last step was to introduce Tejas to Tanvi.
Nice to meet you.
And in 10 seconds, they fell in love with each other.
Tanvi always wanted to open her own salon.
I used my savings, sold my mom's jewellery
and opened a salon for her.
The day they got married, I was very happy.
-Bless you. -Touch my feet too!
Bless you. (chuckles)
Tejas couldn't have found a better girl if he tried.
I'm grateful to you for bringing Tanvi into his life.
Sir, I spoke to the project leader.
He said everyone knew about Divya and Sunil Gupte's romance.
The same Sunil Gupte who was found dead in the well.
Yes, sir. Divya's first murder.
Everything was going well.
I finally liked a boy.
-Just enter. -Yeah.
(both chuckle)
I met Sunil at an office party.
He was a sweet, middle-class boy.
Like me, he too believed in true love.
We started dating and fell in love.
Physically, I was already a woman.
But I needed confidence.
And then, one day, I was fully ready.
(soft music)
I need to tell you something.
What?
I...
(chuckles nervously)
In another life...
my name was Suhas.
(tense music)
(sobbing)
-Please, Sunil, please... -(kicking)
(screams)
(sobbing)
He brought me to this very guest house.
And over here,
at this exact spot, he beat me up.
He beat me so ruthlessly I thought I'd die.
(groans)
(screams)
The body I had yearned for all my life
was taken away from me by my first love.
He completely damaged my surgery.
Sir, the project leader said Divya and Sunil had a fight.
And then Divya resigned. No one saw her after that.
No one could have treated me worse than that, Mrs. Deshpande.
I lay there day and night.
The injuries were not just on my body
but on my soul too.
I often thought of ending it all.
(screams in frustration)
But then your face would come in front of me,
and I'd find the will to live.
As I said earlier, Mrs. Deshpande, you and I are alike.
Evil must be punished.
By killing my father, you gave me a new life.
And thinking about that made me realise
that I too could be of use to people.
Evil must definitely be punished.
By eradicating evil, I could help the world too.
(laughs)
And, Mrs. Deshpande,
that's how your disciple was born.
First things first, I killed Sunil.
(grunting)
You were only looking for true love.
Yes.
And that's why I'd become Shefali at night.
A single girl at bars and pubs, alone at night,
looking for true love.
I'd carefully examine everyone and choose one.
Someone who I believed was looking for true love too.
But every single man turned out to be the wrong one.
And that's why they had to leave this world.
What the fuck! What are you doing-- (gasps)
(grunting)
Tejas is my son.
But you're my true heir, Divya.
I need your help, Divya.
I helped you 25 years ago, Divya.
Now you help me.
(monitor beeps)
Found it, sir.
The Zylocomp Technologies campus was in Mulund.
Office, staff quarters, et cetera.
But because their operations closed down,
the place has been vacant for two years.
When I was there, I saw the name
Zylocomp Technologies in a few places.
Let's go.
(suspenseful music)
You have read the psychiatrist's file.
You know that I have one last justice left to deliver.
You believe in delivering justice too, don't you, Divya?
Then help me.
(thrilling music)
(car tyres screech)
I don't have much time.
Let me go.
(music slows)
(suspenseful music)
(Divya) Tejas!
(eerie music)
(screams)
(music turns intense)
Divya!
(gun fires)
(grave music)
(laughing)
(intense music)
She escaped, you morons.
(chuckles)
-Hi, Tejas. -Hello, Divya.
I have some questions for you.
Go ahead. I'm not going anywhere now.
Why did you help her?
Your mother is my messiah, Tejas.
Was this entire thing her plan?
So she could escape?
You think you have understood her by just reading a few files?
You know nothing, Tejas. Nothing at all.
Your mother saves lives.
She shapes their lives.
There are others like me in the world who need your mother.
Please, Tejas, let her be.
-Let her go. -You know I can't do that.
Divya, tell me where she is.
I won't betray her.
All I can say is...
your mother has gone to close an old door for good.
(suspenseful music)
(Divya) You think you have understood her
by just reading a few files?
You know nothing, Tejas. Nothing at all.
You just read the police files.
Your mother saves lives.
There are others like me in the world who need your mother.
Your mother has gone to close an old door for good.
(suspenseful music)
(suspenseful music rises)
(doorbell rings)
Namaskar, Baba.
(performing rhythmic footwork)
(dark music)
(ghungroo jingling)
(dark music rises)
-What have you done! What... -No... Nothing happened!
Forgive me.
I couldn't stop myself!
You won't stop! I'm going to the police!
To hell with you!
-(Dinanath grunts) -(body thuds on floor)
(melancholic music)
I don't understand what's happened.
She isn't saying a word. She's completely silent.
She's not eating or drinking.
I'm really worried.
She has undergone a major trauma.
But, in cases like this, children repress their trauma
as the years pass.
Medication and time will heal everything.
Sit.
Sit!
You are fortunate
that I had repressed my memories for all those years.
But, in jail, the psychiatrist helped me remember it all.
(tense music)
-Touch me, Dad. -No... No...
So, you only touch innocent little girls?
No, dear, forgive me...
-Touch me. Now. -No... No...
-Touch me, you motherfucker! -No, no, please forgive me.
You killed my mother while also touching me.
You made me a monster, even though it was never my fault.
(breathes heavily)
No...
For 40 years, I've listened to this lion roar.
I cried, I begged,
but it never stopped roaring.
Today, I will silence it for good.
(tense music)
No, dear... No...
Please no...
No...
Forgive me...
No... Please forgive me...
-Please forgive me... -Shh!
What would you say? Don't make a sound.
-Shh! -No...
(chokes)
(pants)
(car tyres screech)
(Dinanath grunts)
(pants)
(running footsteps approach)
You monster.
(sobbing)
You ruined her life.
You hid the truth from me for your own benefit.
Tejas. Tejas.
You deserve to die, you motherfucker!
-No. Don't do that. -You have only lied to me.
-You only lied. -Don't ruin your life
by killing him.
Don't do this, son. Tejas!
Listen to me, Tejas. Don't do this. Tejas, my son.
Aai.
(melancholic music)
(sobbing)
-(body thuds) -(vehicle alarm goes off)
(soft music)
(handcuffs click)
Thank you for everything, Mrs. Deshpande.
I'm now Zeenat again, Arun.
And thanks to you, too, for reuniting me with my son.
The idea was yours, but you're welcome.
We'll meet again.
(soft music continues)
(music turns intriguing)
It feels like I'm going on a picnic, not to jail.
Arun sir was kind enough to bend protocol and do this.
That's why I could personally come to drop you off at jail.
I didn't get a chance to give Tanvi my blessing.
Convey it to her.
Definitely.
Will you come to meet Zeenat in jail, dear?
I will come, Aai.
(tense music)
Where is the car going?
Take the next exit. Hurry!
(tense music rises)
-Sir-- -Where the fuck were you guys!
She snatched my gun, handcuffed me,
and escaped through the creek. Go get her!
-Okay, sir. -Now!
Let's go, hurry!
(suspenseful music)