Policegiri

About the film

Policegiri (transl. Police acts) is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by K.S. Ravikumar and produced by T. P. Aggarwal and Rahul Aggarwal. The film features Sanjay Dutt, Prakash Raj and Prachi Desai in the lead roles. The film was released on 5 July 2013. The film is the official remake of the 2003 Tamil film Saamy, directed by Hari.

Plot

The movie begins with a man (Sanjay Dutt) drinking beer early in the morning and then following up with having beer and idli. He later steals a bike and goes to the police station to get a commission from the police inspector. He then meets a man who takes him to a place where they sell guns and bombs. Finally, he meets a local gangster who hires him to kill a minister. He then kills the gangster and his henchmen and reveals himself as DCP Rudra Aditya Devraj, the new cop in town, near the Andhra Pradesh-Maharashtra border.

The city of Nagapuram is riddled with crime and corruption and is controlled by Nagori Subramaniam (Prakash Raj), the local mafia and a politician maker. Initially, Rudra closes down a lot of illegal businesses in Nagori. But when Rudra meets Nagori, he reveals that he is also a corrupt cop like others and even takes bribes on the condition that Nagori accepts certain points. Nagori accepts, and there is a truce between the two.

Meanwhile, Rudra falls in love with a girl named Seher (Prachi Desai) whom he first encountered in the beginning and she then reciprocates his love.

Production

The film was initially called Thanedaar Returns, referring to a previous hit film of Sanjay Dutt, Thanedaar. However Dutt did not feel comfortable with the title, and the makers did not want to give the impression that it was a sequel to Thanedaar. Subsequently, Dutt suggested to brainstorm for another name. He suggested Policegiri and the unit agreed.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack album was composed by Himesh Reshammiya and Meet Bros Anjjan. The music rights was bought by T-Series. Lyrics were penned by Shabbir Ahmed and Aslam Lashkariya.

Reception

The film received extremely poor reviews from critics.

Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV rated the film one out of five stars and wrote, "The actors holler at the top of their voices, the action sequences are mind-numbingly silly, the background score can pierce through any cotton-wool shield, and the storyline is all sound and fury, and little else." Rohit Vats of IBN Live gave the film one-and-a-half out of five stars and wrote, "Ravikumar is good at many things such as the colour combination in the backdrop and aerial stunts but his wish to generate many emotions within the same sequence doesn't help 'Policegiri'."

Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express gave it one out of five stars and wrote, "There is not one thing about this film that is worthy of being watched." Giving the same rating, Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com wrote, "K S Ravikumar’s remake of Tamil hit Saamy is so hopelessly timeworn, neither its jaded leading man nor its crummy screenplay can salvage this mess no matter how many men Dutt hurls in the sky."

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