Logline:
When Shama’s (17) uncle Asif prohibits her from competing in the upcoming National Boxing Championship, she exchanges places with her twin Houma. But while she is fighting in the gym, Asif is stabbed, Houma disappears and Shama becomes the prime suspect. To prove her alibi, she must find her twin.
In The Ring will be a psychological thriller set in Kolkata, India, about a young boxer, determined to win by hook or by crook.
Synopsis:
SHAMA, seventeen, has one mission in life, to win the National Women’s Boxing Championship and knock her past and present out of her life to escape to a world that respects her as a “Winner.” In the meantime, she lives in Khiddirpur, Kolkata with her aunt ZEENAT, who’s brought her up ever since her mother abandoned her as a baby, and works part time at a magic show to support her dream. Her partner-in-crime, the person who helped her find the job, and who’s always there for her is HOUMA, her identical twin who was adopted, and is perpetually playing the sleuth to find out information about their mother. So when her aunt Zeenat is murdered, and uncle ASIF, a low ranking policeman, and her new legal guardian prohibits her from boxing, the only way she can continue is by exchanging places with Houma. As the girls step into each other’s roles, Houma finds evidence connecting Asif to Zeenat’s murder, and the secret about their mother that Zeenat had kept hidden. Then Asif is stabbed, Houma vanishes, and Shama must find her to prove her innocence. But taking on Asif tests her fighting skills in and out of the ring.
