This “adventure story for kids” actually revolves around a naughty and adolescent kid, Raja’s (Aryann Bhowmik) adventures during his holidays spent in his home in the picturesque backdrop of North Bengal at the foothills of the mountains. Once, while he is playing with his bunch of friends and kid sister Chhoti (Tathoi Deb), near the forests, he discovers a child, his body covered with festering wounds from rat bites and mice bites, hidden in a big hole in the ground. He finds out from a television news channel that Neel, the son of wealthy parents, has been kidnapped and kept hidden in the hole for a ransom.Neel Rajar Deshe 2008
The chief kidnapper, a sinister character named Pandey is hiding in Raja’s house as Raja’s father, a taxi-driver, is involved in the kidnapping. In a moment of greed, he helped deliver the kidnapped child in his taxi. Pandey panics when he realises that Raja has chanced upon the truth and holds Raja’s family captive in their own house.Raja, his sister and his friends find a badly wounded child in a forest. Soon they learn that he has been kidnapped for ransom by a sinister man and that Raja’s father is involved in the racket.Neel Rajar Deshe is `inspired` by Gabriele Salvatore`s I am Not Scared. Raja and Chhoti are two children who while on a vacation are living with their mother in a lonely cottage on the foothills of the Himalayas near Siliguri. Raja discovers a little boy hidden inside a hole near the forests. To his shock, he discovers that his father has unwittingly let himself get involved in the ransom-linked kidnapping of a small boy of a Kolkata industrialist and has been forced to offer his own home as the kidnapper`s hideout. Tension builds up to rescue the kid and the life of Rajas father as they soon find themselves trapped in their own home.