Following the Kurukshetra War, Ashwatthama attempts to kill Uttarā’s unborn child. For committing the act, Krishna, the 8th avatar of Vishnu, curses him to roam the earth as an immortal and witness humanity’s misery as a result of societal and moral deterioration during the Kali Yuga. His divine gem is also taken from his forehead, and his redemption is destined to occur only by protecting the mother of Kalki, Vishnu’s 10th and final avatar, towards the end of the Kali Yuga.[c]
In 2898 AD, 6000 years after the events of the Kurukshetra War, Kasi stands as the last known city in a post-apocalyptic world dominated by Supreme Yaskin, a 200-year-old totalitarian god king. Yaskin rules from the ‘Complex’, an inverted-pyramid megastructure that floats above the city. His authority is enforced by Commander Manas, Counsellor Bani, and an army of soldiers who guard against threats, particularly rebels from the hidden city of Shambhala,[d] who believe in the prophesied arrival of Kalki. In this dystopian society, fertile female refugees in Kasi are forcibly taken to the Complex for Project K, an experiment aimed at producing a secretive serum for Yaskin through artificially inseminated foetuses. However, the serum does not become potent until after a 150-day gestation period, and none of the foetuses have survived for that long, nor do the pregnant women survive the extraction procedure.
Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Haasan, Prabhas, Deepika Padukone,
