Sandeep Varma’s Manjunath, which released on May 9, is an inspiring film. A wake-up alarm for our conscience, a call to return to Gandhigiri. The film is based on the true story of Manjunath Shanmugam, a cheerful Indian Institute of Management (IIM-Lucknow) graduate, working with Indian Oil Corporation, who was shot dead in 2005 by the petrol pump mafia in Uttar Pradesh, after he exposed a massive diesel adulteration scam.

He was only 27. The diesel was being adulterated by cheap kerosene siphoned off from the public distribution system.