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In the crowded, chaotic city of Chennai, amid honking horns, temple bells, and coastal rains, a nameless orphan was born. No mother to hold him. No father to claim him. Abandoned at birth and left in the shadows of a slum, he became just another faceless soul in a world too busy to care.
He was raised by the streets, by hunger, by survival. He never knew what it meant to be called by a name—until one day, that changed.
Fate took its first twist when a kind Muslim couple, childless and devout, found the boy near the steps of a mosque. His eyes were wide, his body weak, but something in him stirred the couple’s hearts.
They took him in and named him Akbar, after the great Mughal emperor. For the first time in his life, he felt warmth—a bed, food, people who called him beta. He prayed with them, played in the alleyways with neighbours, and smiled like a real child.
But as time passed, strange misfortunes struck the family—sickness, job loss, a fire in the shop. Superstition spread. The neighbours called him manhoos — a bad omen. His adoptive parents, reluctantly swayed by fear and pressure, asked him to leave.
The rejection shattered him. He wandered for days, confused and broken. One night, during a fierce monsoon, he stood atop a railway bridge, soaked and trembling, ready to end it all.
Just as he leaned forward, a hand pulled him back. That hand belonged to Dr. Andrew Einstein, a half-Indian, half-German reclusive scientist. Intrigued by the boy’s emptiness and desperation, he took him in.
In his hidden lab, full of machines and AI prototypes, the boy discovered a new world. Andrew gave him a new name: Anthony. Under his wing, Anthony was educated in science, literature, and philosophy. He learned to read, write, code, think—and most importantly, feel.
At school, he met Amara, a village girl with a fire in her spirit. Their bond grew, innocent and unshakable. For once, Anthony began to feel human again—loved, intelligent, maybe even meant for something.
But fate wasn’t done.
Andrew met with a freak lab accident. As Anthony watched his mentor unconscious, a terrifying thought formed in his mind: What if I am cursed? Everyone I get close to suffers.
Gripped by guilt, he ran. He left everything behind—Andrew, the lab, his dreams, even Amara—and boarded the first train out of Chennai.
The train took him to Mumbai, a city that eats the weak and buries the innocent. Within days, he found himself in the middle of a smuggling bust. Running through narrow alleys, he was caught by gangsters. When they interrogated him, he gave a name from memory—Amar, a subconscious tribute to Amara.
With no records, no past, and raw survival instincts, the gang saw potential. Under the leadership of Maqbool Bhai, Amar began at the bottom—carrying drugs, collecting protection money.
But Amar wasn’t like the others. He watched, learned, and analysed. He exposed a mole in the gang. He mapped police patterns. He read psychology books and applied them to gang politics. Maqbool noticed.
Amar rose through the ranks—not through violence, but strategy. He became Maqbool’s advisor, but that earned him enemies—especially Zakir, Maqbool’s impulsive lieutenant.
A betrayal came. Zakir tipped the police about a major deal. Amar foiled it just in time, but was furious that Maqbool spared Zakir. So Amar set his plan in motion.
He turned Zakir’s men against him, manipulated the gang’s logistics, and in a final brutal showdown at the docks, Amar killed Zakir, staging it as a betrayal to the cops.
Now, Amar was the new kingpin.
As power grew, so did pressure. Amar realised that one identity wasn’t enough. So he split himself into three personas:
By day, Anthony manipulated banks, elections, and government systems.
By night, Amar ran a tight crime empire with rules: no drugs to kids, no violence to innocents.
And in the alleys of Mumbai, Akbar became a saviour—building schools, feeding orphans, healing the same wounds he once suffered.
He became a legend, a ghost, and a god, all at once.
Living three lives wasn’t sustainable.
He argued with himself in mirrors. He forgot which persona he was when he woke up. His trauma fractured into identities.
Then, a whisper came: Andrew Einstein is alive.
Captured by the government. They're trying to reactivate Project A.A.A. to control global surveillance.
Meanwhile, Ayesha, a bold journalist, connects the dots: Amar, Akbar, and Anthony are the same man. But when she confronts him, she doesn’t expose him—she asks: “What do you want to be?”
And Amar doesn’t know.
His empire begins to collapse. The three faces no longer cooperate. Amar wants war. Akbar wants peace. Anthony wants to erase everything.
A final plan emerges: Operation Trinity—to destroy corrupt politicians, rival gangs, and Project A.A.A. in one night.
On the night of Operation Trinity:
But then, in the AI core, Anthony sees it: A simulated life, showing what could have happened if he had never abandoned—growing up with Andrew, marrying Amara, living peacefully.
He breaks.
Amar kills Maqbool in a final duel. Akbar is shot while saving children.
Anthony erases A.A.A., knowing if it falls into the wrong hands, humanity is doomed.
Months later, the city hears rumours. The Ghost Saint is gone. The tech CEO vanished. The gangster empire crumbled.
At a press conference, a masked man walks on stage. Cameras flash. Silence.
He removes the mask.
“I was Amar.
I was Akbar.
I was Anthony.
But before all that…
I was a boy no one wanted.
I gave myself names so I could belong.
Now, I give them up—so I can live.
Not as a god, not as a ghost…
Just as a man.”
He walks away into the crowd. No one stops him.
His myth lives on.