Koyelaanchal

About the film

Koyelaanchal is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film film produced and directed by Ashu Trikha, starring Vinod Khanna, Suniel Shetty, Vipinno and Roopali Krishnarao.

Plot

Koyelaanchal unveils itself through Saryu Bhan Singh, an ex-owner turned Mafioso of the region, who through his sheer brutality and blatant defiance of the law of the land, forces the people and the authorities to acknowledge him as their ‘maalik’. Any protest, any voice of dissent against him, is dealt with spine chilling violence of epic proportions.

Things get a bit difficult to handle for Saryu Bhan Singh when an upright District Collector Nisheeth Kumar takes charge of the region and starts asking him questions that no one dared ask him before. Caught amidst labor revolts and naxal uprisings, the last thing Saryu Bhan Singh wanted was to make enemies with the top government officer in his region. He sends his most lethal human weapon, Karua to scare Nisheeth Kumar off to silence.

But the mission don't-kill-just-scare-him goes horribly wrong when Karua ends up injuring Nisheeth's wife and in the process of escape, ends up carrying Nisheeth's infant also, thus abducting the child.

Critical reception

Koyelaanchal received mixed reviews from the critics. Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama rated 3 stars mentioning it as an "absorbing and engaging" film. Film Critic Subhash K. Jha gave it 3 stars and said that Koyelaanchal has a plot that reads like pulp fiction but feels like a slice of ugly Indian history. Film Critic Joginder Tuteja has also given it 3 stars and termed it "Different And Unconventional".

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