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Govardhan, a physician, is falsely implicated in a train bombing and sentenced to the infamous Cellular Jail—also called Kala Pani—on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. While imprisoned, he witnesses the brutal conditions and suffering endured by hundreds of Indian prisoners.
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