"Seen for a heartbeat, then gone like smoke."
A cinematic Hindi patriotic action-thriller · a finished proof of concept
Made solo · with AI · for ~$100
Logline

## Three widows. A unit that doesn't exist.
A war the country can't admit it's fighting.

- Three war widows, recruited by a unit that doesn't exist, become the nation's unknown gunwomen.
- They don't seek revenge. They serve.
- They carry their dead husbands' honor forward into the dark — seva, not vengeance.

Patriotism as quiet sacrifice — rooted in Indian tradition, the lineage of Rani Lakshmibai.

The Hook

## A Bollywood-grade war anthem — made by one person, AI-native, for about $100.

- A ~167-second cinematic film already exists — written, directed, shot & cut solo.
- Work studios budget at ₹40+ lakh and a 40-person crew — delivered in days, for ~$100.
- A female inversion of the "unknown gunmen" mythology — fresh, ownable, unmade elsewhere.

The finished film is the moment that sells — not a promise on a slide.

The World

## A nation buries its soldiers in the light. DHUAAN fights in the dark.

- A deniable program: no roster, no medals, no record. If they're caught, the country has never heard of them.
- Husbands died in the light — honored, flags on their coffins. These women die in the dark — nameless, unthanked.
- Smoke is the ghost the state can never admit it has.

The Three

## Three weapons, three temperaments, one instrument.

MEERA The Eye · Sniper The strategist. Sees the whole board; takes the shot no one else can. Widow of an Army captain.
TARA The Blade · Close-quarters The front line, the fury. Gets in past the wire; ends it with her hands. Widow of a commando.
RANI The Ghost · Infiltration Walks in smiling, walks out clean. In and out before the smoke clears. Widow of an intelligence officer.
The Engine · Honor, Not Grievance

## The lineage of Rani Lakshmibai — grief transmuted into duty.

- Deeply patriotic women, rooted in Indian tradition — faith and custom carried into the dark, not abandoned.
- They take up the cause their husbands died for and finish it themselves — the highest form of tradition, not a rebellion against it.
- Patriotism as quiet sacrifice. What the work hollows out of them is the soul of the show.

Diya · folded flag · mangalsutra — the grief-to-honor turn
A Day in the Unit

## "The Bridge at Zeher Nala" — what one operation looks like.

- The brief, no comfort. Take a fictional network's courier alive, the drive intact, no signatures left behind. No extraction if it goes wrong.
- The Eye takes the high ground; the Ghost walks in the front door; the count goes wrong; the Blade comes in past the wire.
- The smoke arrives — phosphor flare and river mist swallow the bridge; the enemy fires into nothing. They're already gone.

The button: "No one will ever know." — "He knows."

Why Now · The AI Advantage

## The economics of a studio pipeline, collapsed into a single operator.

#### The industry way

₹40+ lakh budget per pilot
40 person crew
Months to deliver
➞

#### DHUAAN, AI-native

~$100 budget
1 operator, solo
Days to deliver

- World, cast & look are already locked — scaling an 8–10 episode anthology season is execution, not invention.
- De-risked: the proof is finished and in the room.

Tone & Look

## Own the smoke. Own the grade.

- Elevated patriotic action-thriller with a melancholy underbelly — URI / Dhurandhar energy.
- Visual signature: warm dust + glowing orange embers + teal shadows, ruined border-city landscapes, drifting smoke.
- They appear from smoke and vanish into it — every time. The motif is the brand.

Season 1 Arc

## Origin → anthology of operations → the cost arc.

Origin"Recruitment." Three widows found and forged into DHUAAN.
Ep 1"The Bridge at Zeher Nala." The first mission proves the unit.
Meera"The Sieve." Has duty got a floor? Her calm hands have started to frighten her.
Tara"Open Hands." A captured boy soldier the age of the child she lost.
Rani"The Reception." Deep cover puts her back at the table where she once smiled beside her husband.
Comparables

## Where it sits — and why it's open territory.

- Tone & scale: URI: The Surgical Strike, Dhurandhar — patriotic action with weight.
- Ensemble & cost arc: a seva-driven, female-led inversion no one else is making.
- Anthology-of-operations travels — sellable, travelable, uncontroversial (fictional enemy by design).

Personal cost Spectacle Male-led Female-led
URI
Dhurandhar
DHUAAN
Fact vs. Fiction

## Inspired by, never based on. Fictional enemy, always.

- Echoes the real "unknown gunmen" phenomenon — reimagined as fiction, the unknown gunwomen.
- The enemy is a deliberately fictional, unnamed cross-border network. No real country, group, religion, or person named or depicted.
- Dignified and patriotic — never jingoistic or communal. Built to clear standards-and-practices cleanly.

Stylized action-myth, not commentary on real conflict — sellable, travelable, uncontroversial.

The Ask

## A finished proof of concept, ready to scale into a season.

- Seeking a commissioning / development partner for Season 1 — origin + anthology of operations.
- AI-native production at studio quality, solo — fast, repeatable, de-risked by the finished pilot.
- Open to full-season development, co-production, and AI-native film / advertising collaboration.

► Watch the finished film Available now to develop
Contact

## Let's build the world of DHUAAN.

Solo AI filmmaker, documenting the build in public. The hero cut is the hook; the backstories, character reveals and "how this was made for ₹0" are the series that earns the follow.

The finished film
youtu.be/bNwOkXjqo6A
Available on request
Full film 1080p · 72s vertical teaser · full vertical cut · character posters
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