Police Officers

<p>William Stuart and Rosna Barker visit the and see a procession of drivers worshipping Goddess Annamadevi. While leaving the procession, Stuart and Baker go to eat a small restaurant in although Baker isn’t feeling well. Due to her pain, they both leave the restaurant when Stuart gets attacked by four men who also disturb Barker as she gets on an . She was raped by the auto driver. Stuart’s corpse is discovered by a man near a train track. Barker goes to the police station and based on her retellings of the incident, they try to nab the culprit. She initially doesn’t remember who her rapist was leading her to falsely identify her rapist as innocent. A fictitious sub-plot involves Naganna trying to stop a young man from selling his girlfriend into prostitution. “It was the experience of a lifetime. […] I am sure we will never get the opportunity to act in another Indian film! It was all great fun. […] I never expected to feel all I did when I acted in the film. I understood, in a very personal manner, for the first time, the emotional trauma women victims go through with an attack of this kind” The film is based on two different incidents that happened on the same night when a British couple visited in December 1996: four men stole money and killed William Stuart and his girlfriend, Rosna Barker, was raped by an auto rickshaw driver. , who wrote the film’s story, also linked it to a similar incident that occurred in . Mallu chose Anand P. Raju as the director since he had worked on several police-based movies. To brief himself on the case, Mallu asked several of his friends that were police officers about the case apart from Bangalore police officers and Bawa. and played police officers investigating the case and played the rapist. Mallu’s friend advertised in London for the roles of the British couple before finding the student couple Lillen Goldberg and Clara, who had experience in theatre. They shot their portions in the first 18-day schedule in Bangalore. Goldberg reportedly felt distressed after watching Clara’s acting in the rape scene. The music was composed by Shivamayya, Mallu’s brother. The film was a box office success running well into its second week.</p>