Charas: A Joint Operation

Charas: A Joint Operation

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Directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia
Produced by Aditya Chopra
Karan Johar
Written by Jimmy Shergill
Starring Irfan Khan
Uday Chopra
Jimmy Shergill
Namrata Shirodkar
Hrishita Bhatt
Music by Raju Singh
Distributed by Dharma Productions
Yash Raj Films
Release dates
 1 January 2004
Running time
 142 minutes
Country India
Language Hindi

Charas: A Joint Operation is a 2004 Bollywood action thriller film about the illegal drug trade, produced by Aditya Chopra and Karan Johar, directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia. Set in Kasol, a village near Manikaran in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, it stars Irfan Khan, Uday Chopra, Jimmy Shergill, Namrata Shirodkar, and Hrishita Bhatt.

Synopsis

One sees more foreigners than locals in the village. But the locals are said to be making money by growing charas instead of vegetables and are assisted by the foreigners. It is well-organized and is controlled by the Italian Mafia.

An English boy, Sam Higgins Adam Bedi, a student of Botany, disappears from Himachal one day. His parents being well connected in the political circles manage to send an Indian cop from the Scotland Yard, Dev Jimmy Shergill, to India for investigation.

An Indian cop Uday Chopra, who pretends to be a vagabond, is assigned the duty of keeping a watch on Dev. Both become friends without revealing their true identities to each other and go up to the mountains in search of answers.

A mysterious blonde-haired drug don, who is an ex-cop, Policeman Irfan Khan calls the shots

En route they run into an assortment of characters; a hitch-hiking school-teacher Hrishita Bhatt, and a junkie Namrata Shirodkar who is hooked on to ice creams. Later we discover that the ice cream slurping junkie is a journalist, but does nothing to expose the shady dealings in the valley. Hrishitaa claims to be a school teacher but turns out to be an accomplice of drug dealers.

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