The Power

Set in 2004-2007, Devidas “Devi” Thakur is the youngest son of crime lord Kalidas Thakur, who arrives home from for his mother Uma’s birthday. Devi wants nothing to do with the family business and is in love with his childhood friend Parveen alias Pari, who is the daughter of his father’s close associate Anwar. When Kalidas refuses to get involved in smuggling drugs with another drug lord, Francis D’costa, an assassination attempt is made on him, and Anwar becomes the suspect. Before proving his innocence, Anwar is killed by Kalidas’s son-in-law Ranjeet Venkat Shankarnarayanan. Pari vows to avenge his death and swears on her unborn child that she will wipe out the entire Thakur bloodline, including Devi. While Kalidas is in a coma, Devi takes over Kalidas’ business and shuts down their illegal activities. He kills Francis for attacking his father. Pari sides with Kalidas’ rival Vishambhar Rana and sets out to annihilate the Thakur family. Ranjeet, who wants to take over Kalidas’ position, sides with Rana to finish Kalidas, Devi and his brother Ramdas Thakur. Ranjeet gets thrashed by Ramdas for thrashing his wife and Ramdas’s sister Rathna, where Ranjeet traps and kills Ramdas with a . During a resulting gang war, Kalidas fakes his death and learns about Ranjeet and Rana’s involvement in Anwar and Ramdas’ death. Rana makes Pari assume that Devi kidnapped her child Ishan, where Pari and Rana heads to the shrine where Devi is completing Kalidas’ fake ritual. Despite injuries, Devi finishes Rana and clears the misunderstandings with Pari. Devi soon dies to his injuries, where Pari gets devastated and dies with Devi. Kalidas, Uma, Rathna and Ranjeet leave for . Kalidas reveals Ranjeet’s wrongdoings and Rathna kills him, where they burn down their car and leave to another city to start a new life. received mixed reviews from critics with praise for its acting, action sequences and technical aspects, but criticised its pace, script and direction. Pallabi Dey Purkayastha of gave 2.5/5 stars and wrote “With a tighter, finer screenplay and more consistent performers, could have been a befitting response of this decade to the , but a lacklustre narrative, among other things, brings the power down to level zero.” Joginder Tuteja of gave 2.5/5 stars and noted “If the film had been crisper with solid drama in the second half too, could have been more powerful.” of gave 1.75/5 stars and wrote “‘The Power’ is engaging to begin with, but as it rolls along it becomes clear that it falls in the ‘if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen ’em all’ category of .” Samrudhi Ghosh of wrote ” , with its creative bankruptcy, brings nothing new to already done-to-death iterations of . The music for the film was composed by with lyrics written by . The single “Oh Saaiyaan” was sung by and Raj Pandit while the female version was sung by Aishwarya Pandit