Set in a speculative 2025, Moondraam Ullaga Por depicts a world where regional tensions have escalated into a full-scale military and economic conflict between India and China. The future world is defined by a global shift in power toward Asia, where the two nations are described as the world's primary superpowers, making their collision an effectively global catastrophe. While the film is grounded in traditional military drama, it introduces a dystopian environment characterized by high-stakes espionage and a political class in India struggling with internal corruption while facing an external existential threat.

Societally, the film suggests that by 2025, technology has integrated subtly into daily life without a total aesthetic overhaul—traditional newspapers like The Hindu maintain their legacy branding, but personal communication devices have evolved into translucent, holographic tablets. The conflict is not merely territorial; it is framed as an economic war designed to cripple India's growth. This timeline diverges from reality primarily in the scale of the conflict, as the film posits a declared "Third World War" beginning as early as 2022, a scenario that has remained a localized border friction in our actual timeline.

Technologically, the film predicts the use of holographic handheld interfaces and speculative weaponry such as the "Electrochemical Liquid Bomb." While real-world 2025 has seen advancements in tactical gadgets, the film's specific vision of ubiquitous 3D holograms for soldiers' personal use exceeds current military or consumer reality. Additionally, the film's focus on economic sabotage as a primary war aim reflects contemporary anxieties regarding trade wars and cyber-economic interference, though the depiction of a total physical invasion of the Indian subcontinent remains a hyperbolic cinematic projection rather than a realized outcome.