Policegiri a must watch movie for all police personnel

Policegiri is a Hindi action comedy movie directed by Tamil director K.S. Ravikumar, it was produced by T. P. Aggarwal & Rahul Aggarwal. The movie starred Sanjay Dutt, Prakash Raj, Om Puri, Prachi Desai, Manoj Joshi, Mukesh Tiwari, Rajpal Yadav & various other actors. Policegiri released on 5^th July 2013 & it was a remake of 2003 Tamil movie ‘Saamy.

Sanjay Dutt plays the role of DCP Rudra Adityadevraj. He’s is the protagonist in the movie & the movie revolves around him. Nagori Subramaniyam played by Prakash Raj is the main villain. Om Puri plays police commissioner's role. Inspector Javed played by Manoj Joshi is an inspector under DCP Rudra Adityadevraj. Sehar played by Prachi Desai is DCP Rudra Adityadevraj’s love interest.

DCP Rudra Adityadevraj is transferred to Nagapuram, a district located at Andhra Pradesh-Maharashtra border. The district is controlled by Nagori Subramaniyam a wealthy local mafia involved in many illegal activities like running many wine shops without permit, cheating people by selling less fuel than the actual quantity, demanding & collecting protection money from people & shopkeepers, illegally selling rocks for construction work, etc.

I’ve always been fascinated by dual life characters. In this movie Sanjay Dutt’s character has duality. DCP Rudra Adityadevraj an extreme police officer after getting transferred 7 times in his career decides to become moderate. When required he acts like a righteous police officer & when required he acts like a corrupt cop.  Soon after arriving at Nagapuram he ensures his police personnel to become righteous & ensures no police officer under him does wrong. He knows that he cannot completely stop the illegal activities that are happening but can decrease it gradually thus he tries to create some type of balance between law & outlaw.

In one incident he takes Rs. 1500000/- bribe in a hit & run murder case & leaves the perpetrator.  He gives the bribe money to the deceased’s family as he knows that the perpetrator’s imprisonment won’t do any good to the deceased’s family. He believes that the bribe money will somewhat help the deceased’s family as the perpetrator may even escape punishment as he belongs to politics.

DCP Rudra Adityadevraj tells Nagori Subramaniyam “गुस्से से ज्यादा power घूस में है” (bribe has more power than anger) & accepts bribe from him & allows him to carry on some of his illegal activities provided no activity should adversely affect Nagapuram's public.  Despite bribing DCP Rudra Adityadevraj Nagori Subramaniyam isn't able to continue his illegal activities fearlessly in full fledge. Gradually Nagori Subramaniyam’s illegal activities decrease. This angers him & in agitation he wants the people of Nagapuram to have a बन्ध (strike) in the city. Hearing about बन्ध (strike) the local shopkeepers get worried as they’ll lose a lot of business money as it’s the occasion of Dussera (festive time when shopping increases). They all approach DCP Rudra Adityadevraj. He sympathises to the shopkeeper’s plight & ensures them that their business will be double as he & his police force will do double duty & prevent Nagori Subramaniyam’s men from holding a बन्ध (strike). Shopkeepers are able to run their shops smoothly as they get protected by DCP Rudra Adityadevraj’s police force. Eventually DCP Rudra Adityadevraj becomes a hero of Nagapuram district.

This infuriates Nagori Subramaniyam as his power & fear amongst the people of Nagapuram district decreases. He decides to kill the shopkeepers & even blasts a bomb in a big market. A lot of people in the market die.

Moments after Rudra Adityadevraj’s marriage is complete he gets information about a bomb blast that happened in a market where many innocent people died. He can’t tolerate Nagori Subramaniyam’s crimes anymore. Even on his wedding day he drives his vehicle straight to Nagori Subramaniyam's house to confront him. He collects bomb blast evidence against Nagori Subramaniyam. Nagori Subramaniyam ensures that DCP Rudra Adityadevraj gets transferred from Nagapuram district soon. DCP Rudra Adityadevraj tells Nagori Subramaniyam that he is bound to get transferred in 7 days time but 7 days are enough to finish him.

Nagori Subramaniyam pressurises Ministers, MP, MLA’s & commissioner to protect him from DCP Rudra Adityadevraj. Thus DCP Rudra Adityadevraj is called to a meeting by police commissioner where Ministers, MLAs, MPs, & Senior Police officers threaten him to not take any action against Nagori Subramaniyam.  They even show photo evidence of DCP Rudra Adityadevraj taking bribe from Nagori Subramaniyam. DCP Rudra Adityadevraj  shows them the receipts of the entire bribe money that he donated to various funds like beggar’s relief fund, orphanage, chief minister relief fund, etc. He tells that he is public’s servant & will do anything for the public rather than following the law as he doesn’t believe in the laws as some laws differ from state to state. A minister asks DCP Rudra Adityadevraj weather he is a cop or a goon. DCP Rudra Adityadevraj replies “Combo”. The MLAs & MPs then threaten DCP Rudra Adityadevraj by telling him that they will kill him if he won’t drop the idea of arresting Nagori Subramaniyam. DCP Rudra Adityadevraj smartly overpowers them by claiming to have recorded the meeting in a pen equipped with camera & voice recorder technology & he would release the footage if he isn’t allowed to arrest Nagori Subramaniyam.

All Ministers, MLAs, MPs, & Senior Police officers thus get scared & allow DCP Rudra Adityadevraj to do whatever he wants. DCP Rudra Adityadevraj leaves to arrest Nagori Subramaniyam however Nagori Subramaniyam has hid himself somewhere. Seeing DCP Rudra Adityadevraj frustrated his wife Sehar takes him to a Shiva temple & eventually DCP Rudra Adityadevraj finds Nagori Subramaniyam begging outside the Shiva temple.  He knows that somehow Nagori Subramaniyam won’t get proper punishment by the law for the crimes that he committed as he is a wealthy person & politicians support him. Thus DCP Rudra Adityadevraj kills Nagori Subramaniyam in an isolated place so that nobody will ever come to know what happened to Nagori Subramaniyam after he hid himself.

The background score is good. During the action scenes Mahabharata’s verses is played “यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत । अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम्”

The verses mean "Whenever & wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, & a predominant rise of irreligion—at that time I descend Myself."

Jhoom Barabar Jhoom Jhoom hai Ishq Krishna ki leela is the best amongst all the songs in the movie.

I’ve watched many bollywood movies on Police amongst them I liked Policegiri the most as its very hilarious & inspiring. In my personal humble opinion Mr. Dutt deserved to get the best actor’s award in all the different award functions & also a National Award for his inspiring performance. Maybe due to his imprisonment he was ignored.

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Policegiri. Hindi. Directed by K.S. Ravikumar. Produced by Rahul Aggarwal T.P. Aggarwal. Performed by Sanjay Dutt. STAR Entertainment, T-Series, 2013.