Policegiri

<p>The movie begins with a man ( ) 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 ( ), 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 ( ) whom he first encountered in the beginning and she then reciprocates his love. Conflict starts when residents complain about a petrol pump selling less petrol to the public and a lady beaten up when she complained. The petrol pump is owned by Nagori. Rudra beats up the employees of the pump as well as Nagori’s henchmen. Nagori catches Rudra and Seher and tells her that he accepts bribes which causes Seher to leave Rudra. 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 then becomes a hero for the people of the city. But Nagori exacts his revenge by causing a riot in the market place and also blowing up a bomb killing many innocent people on the very same day Rudra is marrying Seher. Nagori then tries to kidnap Seher but Rudra saves her life in time. Rudra’s activities invites the wrath of the police commissioner, 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 the market place sellers who are armed and are on his side. Amidst the tear gas smoke, Rudra kills many of Nagori’s men including an MLA with a pistol he bought in black market in the beginning. A market place seller kills one of the MLA’s men who raped his sister. In order to cover up, Rudra blames the crowd for the mishaps. Rudra then kidnaps Nagori’s close accomplice who confesses for his, Nagori’s and the bomb maker’s involvements in the bomb blast and gets a warrant to arrest. Furious, Nagori under the Terrorist Act. 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 hiding 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. The movie was rumoured to be called , 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 . 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 . was actually not a word in use but something Sanjay Dutt created. The soundtrack album was composed by and . The music rights was bought by . Lyrics were penned by and Aslam Lashkariya. All lyrics are written by except where noted. The film received extremely poor reviews from critics. of 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 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 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 wrote, “K S Ravikumar’s remake of Tamil hit 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.” Karan Anshuman of compared the film to . Sarit Ray of wrote, “The music is bland, and the south-inspired action repetitive, giving you little to take away (headache notwithstanding). is entirely forgettable. And that may be a good thing.” Policegiri recorded an average opening and did extremely poor multiplex business although single screens fared much better where it remained in theatres for three weeks recording 57 cr after its four-week run across India. The film was declared as flop by .</p>