Anurag Kashyap reveals the germ behind Kennedy – a SHELVED Sudhir Mishra film starring Sanjay Dutt and Tejaswini Kolhapure
KENNEDY is the story of a contract killer with a dark past. The year is 2021 and the COVID wave has led to chaos across the world. Uday Shetty aka Kennedy (Rahul Bhat) earns his living as a driver for a luxury app-based cab named Chauffare. However, he is also... a contract killer, hired by Commissioner of Mumbai, Rasheed Khan (Mohit Takalkar). One night, he is assigned to murder a man named Kabir (Vaisakh Shankar) in a skyscraper. After executing the job, Kennedy resumes his role as a cab driver and picks up Charlie (Sunny Leone), who lives in the same building, directly above Kabir’s flat. Unknown to most, Charlie and Kabir share a connection. Meanwhile, Rasheed is under immense pressure, having paid Rs. 2 crores as a bribe to secure his post as commissioner. Desperate to recover the money, he asks his team to extort business establishments. However, with COVID wreaking financial havoc, they fail to meet the target. Rasheed then decides to terrorize one of India’s richest business tycoons and instructs Kennedy to procure a vehicle and assemble explosives. Kennedy, in return, seeks information about fugitive gangster Saleem Kattawala (Aamir Dalvi), with whom he shares a bitter history. Rasheed feigns ignorance, though Kennedy suspects otherwise. The explosives plan soon goes awry. What happens next forms the rest of the film.
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