What if on the day that Kasab and his nine accomplices wrecked havoc in Mumbai, another dinghy had landed on our shores of Mumbai? What if its five occupants were part of a sleeper cell and were plotting their attack even as the state Anti Terrorism Squad tried desperately to track and thwart them?

The first of the three stories in Piyush Jha’s Mumbaistan — this one is titled Bomb Day — is based on this premise. Caught between the terrorists and the cops is a young man, Tanvir, eager to finish his assignment and start a new life. As Tanvir tackles ACP Hani and dodges the bullets of Alamzeb, Jha takes the reader through the city’s crowded streets, his stage for this terror drama.