As India, the world’s largest democracy, braces itself for another general election. Newton Kumar, a rookie government clerk finds himself entrusted with a task that appears deceptively simple: conducting elections in a remote village in the jungles of central India.

Newton is a dark comedy about an idealist in a less than ideal world. India, which boasts to be the world’s largest democracy takes elections rather seriously, and in conflict areas, it becomes an opportunity for the state to show its “tough love”. As Newton tries to find order in chaos, we find underlying elements of humor and absurdity. I have structured the film around Newton’s three laws of motion -- the film begins with inertia, sets into momentum in the middle act, and ends with an equal and opposite reaction.

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