MUMBAI: Shoojit Sircar‘s Madras Café is a racy political thriller, set against the backdrop of the strife going on between India and neighbouring country, Sri Lanka. India‘s leading ad gurus Piyush Pandey and Agnello Dias will feature in pivotal roles in the movie.

It‘s about an intelligence officer played by John Abraham who, in a war-like situation, gets into a covert operation and the chaos to finally save his country.

While Pandey and Dias compete for clients, in the film they will both be making their acting debuts as characters from opposing nations.

While Pandey plays a cabinet secretary of India, Dias plays a Sri Lankan minister.