Solo is a 2017 bilingual experimental romantic thriller film written and directed by Bejoy Nambiar, starring Dulquer Salmaan in the lead roles. Shot simultaneously in Malayalam and Tamil, production began during November 2016. Solo is an anthology, telling the story of four different people, each story revolving around four different elements: Earth, Fire, Wind and Water, each with the different facets of Lord Shiva The film was released on October 5, 2017 in both Tamil and Malayalam worldwide.
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World of Shekhar (Water/Jalam)
The story begins with a wounded Shekhar lying on the road after an accident. The story then shifts to 4 years earlier where Shekhar a kind hearted but assertive college student with stammering issues, along with his best friend Pattu and gang beats up Sanju a guy in his college on the issue that Nelson who is Shekhar's friend and Sanju are in love with the same girl Radhika, a blind but free-spirited dancer. Radhika rejects them both by saying that she loves Shekhar. After realizing that her love is true Shekhar begins to like her a falls in love with her. 4 years later their relationship is disrupted by Shravan, Radhika's brother. The families from both sides meet in order to talk about their relationship and everyone becomes shocked after Radhika reveals that she is pregnant with Shekhar's child. Even after this Radhika's family does not let Shekhar see her but later both of them marry with consent of their families. On the wedding night Radhika tells Shekhar that her father always cared for her and one day she sat on beach near the waves and that she felt so safe that her father was beside her and Shekhar promises that he will take their child one day to that beach. After recovering from the accident Shekhar goes to see his new born baby daughter and Radhika. Radhika after making Shekhar promise that he would take good care of their daughter even though if she has disabilities like them both and disappears and it is revealed that Radhika had infact died of complications in child birth and Shekhar out of grief lost his control that his bike collided with a truck causing the accident. The story ends years later with Shekhar playing with his daughter on the same beach where Radhika went.
World of Trilok (Wind/Vaayu)
The story begins with a girl Ayesha whose cycle collides with a BMW car driven by Thomas Zachariah, a rich businessman. Zachariah's son in law Justin decides to save her but Zachariah declines it by saying that they will be arrested and that too they are drunk but Justin puts her in the car and rushes to the hospital but she dies on the the way and Zachariah instead of taking the body to the hospital disposes it on the road. 4 years later Justin and his wife Annie are saddened by the demise of Zachariah. Later Justin after returning from a business deal discovered that his car's brakes are not working. The car then crashes leaving Justin wounded but is saved by Dr. Trilok Menon, a veterinary surgeon. As Trilok rushes to the hospital with Justin, he notices the photo of Ayesha in Trilok's car and realizes that she was his wife. After almost recovering Justin tells everything to Annie and decides to to tell the truth to Trilok and calls him to the hospital. Justin narrates the whole incident to Trilok and a not shocked Trilok asks him whether he can feel his hand. Trilok then reveals that it was really him who killed Zachariah by poisoning his drink thus making a heart attack and even Justin's accident too was orchestrated by him and he also had injected a drug in Justin's drip a few minutes back, that would make him brain dead within minutes. He then says that he was tracking them all these years and he had heard everything that Zachariah and Justin told during the incident through Ayesha's bluetooth earbuds and tells to him that she was alive even after they disposed of her but the only thing that grieved him really was that she was pregnant at the time of her death and says that they actually destroyed 3 lives on that day including his. Trilok then exits the room leaving Justin to die.
World of Siva (Fire/Agni)
The story begins with Siva's mother leaving him, his father and his brother Siddhu. Years later Siva is now a dreaded gangster working under his mentor Bhadran, a crime boss. Siva is protective to his brother and always harsh with his girlfriend Rukku. Siddhu is invited to join the gang by Bhadran when he is released after arresting for almost killing a guy in his college. Siva's life takes a turn when his father is found shot in a bar. As per the CCTV records his father was killed by Vishnu, a crime boss in Mumbai and Siva decides to take revenge on full support by Bhadran. Siva along with Nandha and Prabha, his gang mates goes to Mumbai much to the disapproval of Rukku. On the bus to Mumbai Siddhu is found by Nandha and Siva throws him out but Nandha allows him to stay as they were halfway. On reaching Mumbai Siva ties with a gangster to take out Vishnu. On the next night during a festival Siva along with his gang reaches Vishnu and creates a bloodshed shootout in which Prabha and many others are killed. Siva eliminates almost every member of Vishnu's gang and Siddhu who was put in a car trunk for his safety escapes and rushes to Siva only to see him get killed by Vishnu. Siddhu along with Nandha manages to escape and reaches their hideout hotel. The next morning a revenge driven Siddhu takes Nandha's gun and goes to Vishnu's house only to be shocked by seeing his mother there who is now Vishnu's wife and it is revealed that it was the reason why Vishnu killed Siva's and Siddhu's father and Siva was actually distracted by seeing his mother and Vishnu taking advantage of this kills Siva. As Vishnu enters the room Siddhu kills him and his mother begs him to escape. The story ends with a grieving Siddhu running through the streets of Mumbai.
World of Rudra (Earth/Bhoomi)
Rudra Ramachandran is an army trainee who is madly in love with Akshara who is his girlfriend. He constantly ruins Akshara's marriage proposals by creating a scene in their house. Rudra is the son of Brig. Ramachandran and Vidya Ramachandran, who always scolds him due to his aggressive behavior but his father always considers him as a friend. Akshara's father Brig. Sundarrajan decides to file a case against him in order to expel him from the army as a revenge for his aggressive actions but Rudra's father and mother requests him not to. Later Akshara tell Rudra that she a got admission for degree in Australia and has to leave soon and promises to him that she will always be his. 4 years later Rudra who has now become an army officer narrates the story to his senior officer Col. Raunaq Sachdeva and team mates. He tells them that Akshara has not even tried to contact him till this date and due to her constant ignoring he even went to Australia but she refused to see him and now he had received her marriage invitation card. Raunaq says that his team members must never accept defeat and Rudra must go to the marriage. Rudra along with Raunaq, Daisy and other team mates goes to Akshara's house the day before her marriage. Rudra sees her but she refuses to talk to him and asks him to leave. At the marriage eve function Rudra barges and declares Alok, Akshara's fiance to fight with him. Alok who is a boxing champion beats up Rudra as he falls unconscious but Raunaq motivates him to fight back, Rudra now back up brutally beats up Alok but his hindered by Akshara who tells him that it was really his father who he considered as his best friend forced Akshara to leave Rudra and a shocked Rudra leaves the function. Later his mother tells him about an incident that happened when he was 2 years old that his parents were on the verge of divorce as his father had an affair with another lady. Although he broke up with her for the sake of his marriage the lady was declared pregnant and the lady is revealed to be Akshara's mother which makes Akshara, Brig. Ramanchandran's daughter and Rudra's half-sister. The film ends with Rudra asking forgiveness to Alok on the day of his marriage with Akshara.
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