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Age of Vice

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Deepti Kapoor

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It’s New Delhi, 2004. There has been a horrible car accident. A Mercedes has jumped the curb and mowed down five pedestrians – one of them five months pregnant. At the wheel is a wretchedly drunk errand boy – impeccably dressed, all sinew and muscle, perfectly coiffed – but a servant, nonetheless, and the only one at the scene. He’s taken to jail, he’s beaten up, tortured; he doesn’t speak. His name is Ajay. A few days into his imprisonment, the guards appear. “There’s been a mistake,” they say, cleaning him up. “Why didn’t you tell us?” they ask, as they give Ajay hot food and his wallet, fresh clothes, chai. They’re apologetic, deferential even. “We didn’t know you were a Wadia man.” Deftly shifting through time and perspective, Age of Vice revolves around the uber-wealthy, well-connected, powerful and completely corrupt Wadia family – the young, ambitious, spoiled Sunny; his controlling, ruthless and domineering father Bunty; and the violent, powerful, bloodthirsty Uncle Vicky. Those who grow close to the Wadias find themselves entangled in the web of this family’s constant grabs for more power, more influence and control, more land, more wealth – even, occasionally, for a scapegoat. There is Neda, a curious, young journalist caught between her profession and the pleasures of the millennial city; Gautam Rathore, a royal decadent playboy in need of public redemption; and then there’s Ajay: a watchful, low-caste boy born into poverty and sold into servitude, who eventually find himself rising through the ranks of the Wadia family’s loyalty.