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GOOD COP, BURA COP

GOOD COP, BURA COP
By M.J. Masurkevitch

GENRE: Action, Comedy
LOGLINE:

A hardened Indian female cop is reluctantly partnered with an arrogant, privileged white male cop to investigate the massive criminal-political conspiracy behind a racially-charged gang-war.

SYNOPSIS:

Good Cop Bura Cop (Bura is Hindi for ‘bad’) is a cross-cultural buddy cop dramedy that follows an Indian female cop (AJ) who has battled misogyny and racism for her entire career, and her new partner - a privileged white officer (Rob) who doesn't understand that he is privileged and maybe just a little bit bigoted.

AJ is struggling with the death of her last partner, and doesn't want a new one. She is also trying to watch out for a local group of youth from the ethnic bedroom-suburb community, and a rise in tension with a gang of white-supremacist youth. The last thing she wants is a partner, and the last partner she wants is the idiot she saw on the news.

Rob has always wanted to be loved - and right now he is hated, ever since he tased a black husband instead of a white burglar. He believes the young white supremacist gang are not truly racist, and can change - because he has to believe that he can change himself. Meanwhile, the Old Boy's Club of his Chief, Superintendant, and prominent members of society including the local mafia don - welcome him in as their new Golden-Boy, and he is caught between their Old-Guard views and his loyalty to his new partner.

As they continue their investigation, they meet AK Hassan - a Chandigarh criminal who Rob suspects and AJ finds attractive, and who helps them take down the sexual predator that kidnaps the friend of the Don's daughter. They are wooed by the larger-than-life bollywood-star-turned-Politician, Rudra, who seeks to reinvent the poor area of Brampton with his "Project Phoenix." And they begin to wonder as the Guns and Gangs division - corrupted by the local mafia - block their investigation at every turn.

Feelings develop; AJ is rejected by Pakistani top-cop Pranil, because he is homosexual and interested in Rob. Rob rejects Pranil but hooks up with his partner Val, a down-to-earth country girl, who begins to develop feelings for Afghani nerd-cop Isaad even as she investigates him for suspicious activity.

As the two gangs build in animosity, AJ and Rob begin to reveal the real gangsters at work in the shadows, chasing them in shootouts through a warehouse and a laundry. As they get closer, the conspirators set Rob to take a fall - blaming him once more for police racism - and sacking him. AJ continues her investigation only to find Rob with the villains. Their final showdown happens on the eve of the battle that will destroy the town - unless they can put aside their personal grievances, and save it.

Nathaniel Baker

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