This book is an attempt to deconstruct the whole process of how the idea of the film Raajnecti germinated in the mind of the director Prakash jha, and how it took root and was nurtured and conceptualised by the writer and collaborator Anjum Rajabali. taking us through the various stages of planning. designing and drafting the structure of the narrative, working out the logic of the characters, their characterization, their motivations that would serve as engines in driving the story forward and fleshing it out in terms of space and time.