In the year 1821, Nundon is being forced to study the Rigveda and he really doesn't want to do it. He protests by throwing the sacred book on Guruji's face and running away. This angers the gods, who decide to destroy his village in a flash flood. He is saved, however, by none other than Goddess Saraswati herself. To repent for his sins, he is made to read every single thing humans have ever written throughout history. With his new knowledge and guidance from Goddess Saraswati herself, he uses his new powers to become Surruswutty Nundon.
Nundon has a superpower that allows him to live in the mind of every person in the world who can read and write. He is able to look at all the ideas a person has and helps them convert them into written words. Although Nundon has an absolute control over what a person can think, he does not use that to hinder someone’s opinions. He once had to help Hitler write his first speech that he gave at the German Workers’ Party.
When Nundon is in someone’s mind, he has two visions: One of the person who is writing, and the world that the writer has built in his/her mind. Nundon spectates whatever is happening in the mind of that person and dictates it for the writer. Occasionally when the writer zones out, Nundon helps the writer come back on track and removes all the mental obstacles that come in the writer’s mind.
The power of living in other people’s minds is given to Nundon by Goddess Saraswati. She has the power to control everyone’s knowledge and speech, and she only gave Nundon a fraction of her powers, which he initially used to read every book in the world but later began using for helping people read and write.
Nundon has a moral code that he will never physically harm someone no matter what they do. He strictly believes that if someone takes the path of violence they do it either because they have no choice, or they know that they are wrong. He also never helps anyone unless they ask him personally, and enters people’s minds without letting them know about it.
Nundon also has very bad relations with all the gods except Goddess Saraswati. She always treats him like her own son, while the other gods treat him like a sinner. This is the reason why Nundon is never able to find peace no matter what he does, his luck is always bad, he never has any emotions towards anyone and he can never establish good relations with anyone.
To understand the context behind the villain of the story, we need to discuss about superhumans. Superhumans (Homo sapien supremus) are a species of primates that look absolutely like humans but have certain superpowers. While they have an advantage in superpowers, humans make it up from their cognition. They exist in Nundon's universe. A superhuman plays an important antagonist in the story, which is the reason why they need a deep explanation.
Throughout history humans have remained as a dominant species due to their complex minds. They were able to extract revenge from their predators for killing one of their people, they were able to invent fire, wheel and other necessities that were required in order to survive, they could create laws that would suit their kind and they had the control over deciding which species shall exist on earth and which ones shall not. Superhumans did not have this luxury, because of which they were always the weaker species.
Superhumans, although they look and talk just like humans, are very different when it comes to the mentality. Superhumans cannot build things. They can only destroy. Most of the superhumans’ powers come with huge limitations, which are exploited by humans to kill or capture them. For example, if a superhuman can turn himself into fire, he can be beaten with water. If one can turn liquid, he can be beaten with electricity. Superhumans are not allowed to live in big cities, as it is feared they might turn wild and destroy them. And so they are forced to live in forests, remote places, seaside or other places where humans don’t normally live.
In spite of the amount of oppression they faced throughout history, the superhumans rarely stir up against humans. And even if one of them does, no one else supports them. All superhumans only live for themselves, just like any wild animal. If a superhuman dies, the other superhumans show some regret but then move on with their lives. And if a superhuman kills a human, they do not feel bad about it. Rather their only fear is that now the humans will come to kill them. In that case either they accept their fate, or fight till the last breath the way Aggrash does in the story.
Aggrash is a superhuman who has grown to hating humans to the point that he wants to eliminate them before they can reproduce. Everyday he goes to the edge of a forest area to locate a remote village, and kills everyone who lives there. Initially he required a bit of practice and was not as good in doing the work, but slowly as his kill streak went up he began eliminating human population from the remote areas.He believes if all the people from a certain unknown village are killed, there will be no one left to demand justice for them, and by the time the police comes he would have already left.
Whenever Aggrash kills people, he comes back to his hideout in a cave at the end of the day. Over there he writes down the number of people he killed on that day and calculates how many people he has killed in total. It is because of his written record that Nundon is able to track him down. By the time Nundon had learnt about him, Aggrash had already mastered the art of genocide and had been killing over 40000 people everyday for the past seven months.
Being a superhuman, Aggrash does not have any empathy towards life. For him life has the same meaning as any other wild animal has: Nothing. When Nundon asks him what happens after someone dies, he says he does not believe in any afterlife. Keeping in account the brutality that he shows, Nundon is actually very surprised when he sees the philosophical side of Aggrash. Aggrash believes that if the police catches him he is sure to get a death sentence, and so he should keep cranking up his statistics as long as he is still free. Although Nundon confronts him, things don't go as planned.
It has been a long time since we have ever had an original story connected with a mythology. Even though this has been done before, it has always been poorly executed (especially in the late 2000s Bollywood films). This has to be changed, especially considering the majority of the Indian audience is more interested in such stories over the otherwise “relatable” or “content-driven” stories that are otherwise told to us.
What we need is something that can live on as a legacy; something we can show the whole world as to how complex our new age storytellers can also be. With that in mind, I have prepared a story that any person who has an interest in the Indian mythology can immediately grasp upon.
I had originally planned a superhero cinematic universe of my own, that I wish to make at some point in the future. Sinky was going to be the very first entry in the series. Since it was a huge success, I have full confidence in my vision being in the right direction. Although this is a completely different style of writing when compared to Sinky, it does share certain similarities in terms of the proceeding of events and how the story often ends up taking an unexpected turn of events, giving a completely different ending of what the reader initially thought.
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