 The bloody conflict between Hindus and Muslims in northwestern India is at the forefront of a struggle for India s identity, led by an increasingly powerful Hindu nationalist movement whose goal is to turn India into a Hindu nation. The film focuses in part on the efforts of India s supercop, K.P.S. Gill, a Sikh, sent by the federal government to quell the violence in Gujarat and on Harish Bhatt, a leader of the Bajrang Dal or Monkey Brigade, India s largest Hindu youth movement. Amid recruitment drives and martial arts training, Bhatt imbues the young with the spirit of Hindu nationalism. At the same time, Gill attempts to keep order as preparations are made for the dramatic Rathyatra, an annual religious parade of painted elephants and Hindu songs.