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Dev Patel (born 23 April 1990) is a British actor. He began his career playing Anwar Kharral in the E4 teen drama Skins (2007). His breakthrough came with the leading role of teenager Jamal Malik in Danny Boyle's drama Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for which Patel was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Patel's career expanded with leading roles in the comedy-dramas The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015), the science fiction thriller Chappie (2015), and a supporting role in the HBO series The Newsroom (2012–2014). For his performance as Saroo Brierley in the drama Lion (2016), Patel won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He subsequently starred in the independent films Hotel Mumbai (2018), The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) and The Green Knight (2021), and made his directorial debut with the action film Monkey Man (2024).
This story is about the passengers and crew of Montego Air Flight 829 who experience a brief period of turbulence, but when they land, they discover that five and a half years have passed. Not only they just mysteriously presumed dead; they also develop superpowers. This happened because their plane flew through a phenomenon call "Dark Lighting" during a period of turbulence. As a result, these passengers are gifted with unique abilities. But little they didn't know the passengers are being targeted by people called the Soul Assurance Regiment or SOAR for short. A military organization that hunts down any supernatural beings and now they those the passengers as a threat to humanity. As they reintegrate into society, they begin experiencing "callings", which are visions or intuitive urges that guide them to prevent tragedies and solve mysteries connected to their shared fate and their unique superpowers. This fan fiction story explores theme of these passengers as they try to understand why were given a second chance and why they have been gifted with powers.
