A powerful international thriller filmed in English and starring Anupam Kher and Mahima Choudhury, Chess the movie differs from chess the game in that it moves at a cracking pace. A billionaire businessman, a brilliant young software genius and their wives are at the heart of this fast-moving tale of thwarted ambition, industrial espionage, devotion and revenge.

Anupam Kher's character is a Master of the Universe – a Murdoch-level mover and shaker of the business world who has amassed a fortune of billions and seems unbeatable. The richest Indian in Britain, Anupam's character has the uncanny ability to anticipate his business rivals' every move and is renowned for stealing the spoils from under their noses, often with a surprise and breath-taking move.

Toiling within one of his many companies is the man who turns out to be Anupam's nemesis, a software genius working on a new product worth millions that will finally bring him to his hero, Anupam's, attention, and secure his own future in the firmament of business stars. At least so he thinks.

When the new software disappears from the company's computer system on the day it is to be presented to the Big Boss, it is clearly an audacious case of company theft. The software's creator himself is thrown in jail as the culprit, leading to ruin for himself and his young pregnant wife, the dashing of his dreams, and a decision to seek revenge on his former idol, whom he blames for his misfortune.

After both men's wives have been tragically pulled into the web of treachery and revenge that is revealed as the film unfolds, the ultimate showdown between the two men, one brandishing a gun, the other armed incongruously with just a chess board, reveals an unexpected twist; a deus ex machina that has been guiding the story, unknown to all of the protagonists bar the chief Player himself.

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