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In this world, Sabherwal Group ("Sabherwal" meaning "legend") is the most powerful corporation in India, perhaps best compared to real-life Samsung, only bigger and more powerful

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In this world, Sabherwal Group ("Sabherwal" meaning "legend") is the most powerful corporation in India, perhaps best compared to real-life Samsung, only bigger and more powerful. Sabherwal makes cars, owns department stores, and is virtually everywhere - its empire even includes an elite school. At the beautiful Sabherwal campus, pampered students flaunt their wealth and band together in cliques.

Unfortunately, just being rich isn't enough to survive the teen tyranny at Sabherwal - outsiders or loners are often marked as targets by the bored uber-clique F4. Once a student is delivered F4's "red card," it signals the rest of the school to go all out in harassment and bullying.

This guy, having just received the dreaded red card, is immediately chased by students and beaten. He's cornered into a bathroom, puts up a good fight, and manages to escape.

Anokhi Bhalla arrives at the school bearing a dry-cleaning delivery, amazed at all the splendor. Students talk excitedly about the newest F4 victim, joking that they'd known he wouldn't last long. Recognizing the boy's name, Anokhi follows the crowd outside, where they all look up at the rooftop, where the battered guy stands poised to jump off the building.

The guy shouts to his audience, "This what you want, isn't it? Fine, I'll give you what you want." He starts to step off the ledge - but Anokhi bursts on the scene, yelling to get his attention. She's got his dry-cleaning! That'll be $30, please!

Anokhi isn't too quick on the uptake, because she doesn't grasp the severity of the moment until the boy tells her to get the money from his family after he dies. At this, Anokhi gasps in horror: "Are you about to die? Why? You go to such a nice school." He tells her, "This isn't school, it's hell." Anokhi corrects him, saying, "Excuse me, but the real hell is outside."

He asks if she knows what F4 is (she doesn't), and explains that their red card makes you a hunted man. Finally realizing that this mysterious F4 is why he's all bloody and ready to jump off a building, Anokhi indignantly asks, "And you're going to let them get away with that?" If this was her school, she'd show them who was boss. The guy tells her that her friends are lucky to have a friend like her - and then jumps.

Everyone gasps - Anokhi lurches forward - and grabs him on his way over the ledge. Saved!

Photos are uploaded, news spreads quickly, and pretty soon, Anokhi is hailed as a hero in the media, a sort of Wonder Woman for the working class. As this occurred on a Sabherwal campus - and worse, a Sabherwal heir is involved (albeit indirectly as F4's leader) - citizens denounce the Sabherwal Group. Housewives agree to boycott Sabherwal stores, candlelight vigils are held, people demonstrate.

Anokhi's best friend Reema and her boss cheer her on (the girls work after school at a neighborhood restaurant). Reema wistfully wonders if the F4 boys are as cute as they say, but Anokhi is not at all impressed. She calls them Fly Four instead - dung flies.

Naturally, the outcry is a pain in the neck for Sabherwal Group's CEO, Devi Sabherwal, who happens to be mother to F4 leader Shaurya Sabherwal. She vents her ire on her secretary, Mr.Makkhan (perfectly cast, by the way): "You know why public opinion is frightening? Because they're ignorant!"

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