After the Borrowed Name

By Adeeba Rashid

When student filmmaker Vihaan Malhotra finds a rental agreement signed in his own handwriting under a name that is not his, he assumes it is a simple forgery. But in the corridors of a Delhi university hostel, where ambition and loyalty are traded like currency, the document pulls him into a conspiracy linking a charity's missing funds to witness intimidation that reaches inside the very institution he is trying to document. With a repaired watch that stopped twice and an oral history archive hiding a clue no one was meant to preserve, Vihaan must decide whether the colleague whose lie started everything is his only hope or his greatest threat. After the Borrowed Name is a dark and propulsive workplace thriller about the cost of telling the truth when the institution itself is the story.