Policegiri

Policegiri
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	K.S. Ravikumar
Produced by	T.P. Aggarwal Rahul Aggarwal
Written by	Farhad-Sajid (dialogues)
Story by	Hari
Starring	Sanjay Dutt Prakash Raj Prachi Desai
Music by	Himesh Reshammiya Meet Bros Anjjan
Cinematography	N. K. Ekambaram
Editing by	Samjith MHD
Distributed by	STAR Entertainment
Release dates	5 July 2013 (2013-07-05)
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Box office	16.8 crore (US$2.7 million) [1]

Policegiri is a 2013 Indian Hindi action comedy cop film. The film produced by T. P. Aggarwal and Rahul Aggarwal marks the Bollywood debut of popular Tamil director K.S. Ravikumar. The film features Sanjay Dutt, Prachi Desai and Prakash Raj in the lead roles. The theatrical trailer was released on 28 May 2013, and the film released on 5 July 2013.

The film is the official remake of the 2003 Tamil film Saamy, directed by Hari starring Vikram and Trisha Krishnan in the lead.

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 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 thens kills the gangster and his henchmen and reveals himself as DCP Rudra, the new cop in town, near the Andhra Pradesh-Maharashtra border.

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

Conflict starts when residents complain about a petrol bunk selling less petrol to the public and a lady beaten up when she complained. The bunk is owned by Nagori. Rudra beats up the employees of the bunk as well as Nagori's henchmen. A war emerges between the two.

Nagori then calls for a bandh of the market place. But on the day of bandh, Rudra and his team are prepared and drive away all the protestors. Rudra becomes a hero for the people of the city. But Nagori extracts his revenge by causing a riot in the market place and also blowing up a bomb killing many people on the very same day Rudra is marrying Seher (Prachi Desai). Nagori then tries to kidnap Seher but Rudra saves her life in time. Rudra's activities invites the wrath of the Police commission who tries to control Rudra but in vain.

Rudra then receives his transfer orders and has seven days left in the town. He challenges Nagori that seven days is enough to finish him. The next day, Nagori's men take out a procession with the aim to kill Rudra. But Rudra and his team are prepared and he along with his men kill many of Nagori's men including a MLA and blames the crowd for the mishaps.

Rudra then kidnaps Nagori's close accomplice who confess for his and Nagori's involvement in the bomb blast and gets a warrant to arrest Nagori. Rudra is then called to a meeting by the commissioner where MLAs, MPs, Senior Police Officers and Ministers threaten him. He smartly controls them by claiming that his pen has a camera and a voice recorder and he'll release the footage to media. Nagori goes into hidding after knowing that Rudra can't be stopped.

A couple of days later, Rudra catches Nagori who is dressed as a beggar near the temple. He takes Nagori to secluded spot after beating all his henchmen. He then kills Nagori by burning him to death ensuring that Nagori is never found and is declared as a wanted criminal.

Production

The movie was rumoured to be called Thanedaar - Part 2, referring to a previous hit movie of Sanjay Dutt did during his younger days. However Dutt did not feel comfortable with the movie backing on the success of Thanedaar, considering the fact that the story was not written keeping in mind the original Thanedaar. Furthermore the directors and producers of the original Thanedaar were different. Subsequently Sanjay Dutt suggested to brainstorm for another name. He suggested Policegiri and the unit was happy to call this movie Policegiri. Policegiri was actually not a word in use but something Sanjay Dutt created.^[2]

Soundtrack

Policegiri
Soundtrack album by Himesh Reshammiya
Released	June 2013
Genre	Film Soundtrack
Label	T-Series
Producer	Himesh Reshammiya
Himesh Reshammiya chronology
Shortcut Romeo (2013) Policegiri (2013) Naam (2013)

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.

Tracklist

Reception

Critical response

The film received extremely poor reviews from critics. VjMOVIEws noted that, "Except some funky dialogues,there is nothing to write home about. By all measures, the movie appeals only to the audience who have got used to the tonic prescribed by Kollywood.".^[3]

Review scores
Source	Rating
NDTV[4]
IBN[5]
The Indian Express[6]
Rediff[7]
Mumbai Mirror[8]
Hindustan Times[9]
GlamSham[10]
bollywood3[11]

Box office

Policegiri opened to average collections. Policegiri collected 0.99 crores in its opening day. Then it went on to collect more than 12.50 Crores in its opening week.^[12] Due to such bad business, Box Office India declared the film a 'Disaster'.^[13]

Telecast

The movie was telecasted on Colors as Independence day Special Movie.

References

External links

• Policegiri Review
• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2861320/