Hari Puttar and the Deadly Fellows

Puttarmania: While the world awaits Harry Potter's latest adventure, read what our Hari Puttar is up to!

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Our story is the final chapter in the long-running battle for supremacy between good and evil and is based in the clandestine media school, The School of Plagiarism and Bitchcraft. Our protagonists are final year media students there and are forever embroiled in a war to either become a Jhola Journalist (those who supposedly uphold truth) or a Suspect Stinger (those who supposedly uphold everything but the truth).

Starring:

Hari Puttar: Our hero, an orphan who lost his parents rather tragically, who is basically honest but has a talent for lying that often forces him to misquote people in his stories and 'break' false news... for the greater good. He also has a glad eye for ladies and a very dark, secret...He also has a weird birthmark, a huge, bright, red bump (aloo) on his right temple.

Raman Wadhwani: Hari's best friend and sidekick. He too has a glad eye for the ladies... but they are always way older than him.

Harmanpreet 'Harmi' Kaur: She is a girl and is a friend to Hari and Raman. She is very intelligent, but unfortunately, her intelligence is only restricted to understanding gossip about celebrities.

Mini Wadhwani: Raman's sister and Harmanpreet's nemesis. Mini is an aspiring model and thinks that looking good in a situation is the most important thing.

Bumble Bore: Is the Head Of Department and a committed bachelor who is only too ready to commit if he could find a lady to marry. He upholds honest journalism and has done One Brilliant breaking story in his career - that no one has in fact read - and ever since, has only spoken about That Big Story that he did.

Val Thockeray: Our villain, the ultimate media magnate who wants to create the ultimate TV channel that will relay whatever he wants to relay. He has no ethics (of course!) and believes, "Either get the story by hook or crook, or create the story by hook or crook." He is personally responsible for slandering many Important People and spoiling their lives by printing lies about them. Now he wants to recruit all top students from SPB and use the Power of the Press to change things to his ways.

Bhoot Uncle: He is Hari's long-dead godfather and often appears to him as the friendly ghost who advises him on all things sundry. When he was alive, he was an ace crime reporter, till he was framed in some false sting operations and had since been named, 'Seriously Black' by the press.

The Story So Far

Hari had been peacefully studying with his friends and passing one semester after another when a nasty family secret was finally revealed to him.

For long Hari had lived under the belief that he had lost his parents in a fire. The story was that Hari's father was a chain smoker and one day, carelessly, had flicked a still-burning cigarette and had burnt down his house. His wife, Hari's mother, was also inside the house with Hari when the accident had happened. People say that Hari's mother, in a desperate attempt to save him, had chucked the infant out of the window, and since he had landed on his head, Hari has had the bump since.

However, just at the beginning of his last semester, Hari had learnt that his parents had not died in an accident. And that in fact it was evil media magnate, Val Thockeray who had burnt down his house and killed his parents. Val Thockeray had apparently killed Hari's parents because they were planning a big expose on him. Now, Hari wants revenge - by clearing his father's name and proving that Val Thockeray was the murderer - and has enrolled his best friends to help as well.

The Climax

Bumble Bore, who was Hari's HOD had warned him, that media intelligence said that if Hari took on VT openly, only one of them would survive. Since Thockeray had a lot of clout in the media, it was either going to be the end of Thockeray or the end of whoever was challenging him.

After much chasing and mobilizing forces – all those who wanted the end of Thockeray had come under the aegis of an anti-Thockeray organization called the Power of the Press (POP). As part of their plan to catch Thockeray red-handed, the POP had devised the ultimate plan: to catch Thockeray through a sting operation.

It had been known that the Puttar's – Hari's parents – had left the details about the Evidence against Thockeray somewhere and once Hari was to turn 18, that Evidence would come to him; and thus it would be Hari who would cause Thockeray's downfall. Ever since Thockeray had learnt of this, he had been trying to either get his hands on the Evidence or get Hari out of the way. Thockeray too had been trying to poach people from the POP and Hari's team to get to our hero.

Knowing Hari's preference for women, Thockeray had zeroed in on either Harmi or Mini to do his dirty job. So far, Thockeray had managed to have two private chats on instant messenger with Harmi and had even taken Mini out for some page three parties.

Tonight, it was the Biggest Party of the year and everyone, from the members of the POP, to the other press members and Thockeray and his minions were going to be there.