Khakee Dvd

Khakee (English translation: The Uniform) is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language neo-noir action thriller film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi and written by Santoshi and Sridhar Raghavan. The story revolves around an Indian police team on a mission to escort an accused terrorist from a small town in Maharashtra to Mumbai. Khakee stars an ensemble cast consisting of Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgan, Akshay Kumar, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, and Tusshar Kapoor. It was theatrically released on 23 January 2004 to a widespread critical acclaim. the critical response was mostly positive, with praise towards the direction, performances, and story. Produced on a budget of ₹25.77 crore (US$3.6 million), Khakee earned a total of ₹49.89 crore (US$7.0 million) at the worldwide box office, becoming one of the year’s highest-grossing Bollywood films.

Plot

Additional Commissioner of Police, AD.CP Naidu (Prakash Raj) assembles a team of five police officers to bring Dr. Iqbal Ansari (Atul Kulkarni) a captured ISI agent, responsible for riots, safely from Chandangarh to Mumbai, consisting of DCP Anant Shrivastav (Amitabh Bachchan), Senior Inspector Shekhar Verma (Akshay Kumar); Sub-Inspector Ashwin Gupte (Tushar Kapoor) and constables Kamlesh Sawant and Gajanan Mhatre.

It is then shown that Yashwant Aangre (Ajay Devgn) is tracking the team for reasons best known to him. The team proceeds to Chandangarh, and come across school teacher Mahalakshmi (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan), who informs them about suspected terrorists who stayed incognito in her school premises. Soon, along with Ansari and Mahalakshmi who also wants to go to Mumbai, they leave for Mumbai by road. Angre distracts the team and tries to disable the mission repeatedly but fails.

On route the van becomes dysfunctional, and the team halts at a secluded bungalow. Anant calls Naidu to apprise him of the events and send a police team. Anant now remembers Aangre, a corrupt and ruthless ex-cop, who was dismissed and imprisoned after Anant caught him killing five innocent men.

The team is soon attacked at the bungalow by Aangre and his men. Shekhar tries to surrender Ansari to Aangre, but Anant objects. At this point, the plot turns when Ansari tells them that the terrorists are there to kill him, not free him. He was a doctor in Chandangarh when journalist Bhaskar Joshi informed him that the communal riots were actually engineered by minister Deodhar, who killed a few social workers who had compiled evidence that would’ve jailed him. Bhaskar had the file containing the evidence and wanted the post-mortem reports from Ansari, to expose Deodhar but was killed, and when Ansari refused to cooperate with the wrongdoers, corrupt cops framed him as a terrorist.

Aangre and his men enter the house but Shekhar and Ashwin cause an explosion and the team manages to escape, but Aangre shoots Ansari. Anant then realizes that Naidu is a corrupt cop in hand with Deodhar and Aangre.

Ansari is taken to the hospital. Anant gives the others the option to leave the mission, but everyone refuses. The team soon plan to get away on an empty train to Mumbai with the recovering Ansari. Aangre’s gang arrive, but the team has taken precautions. Kamlesh drives away from the station in the police van as a decoy. Shekhar takes control of the train and the team boards it. Kamlesh abandons the van and runs to catch the moving train, but is shot by Aangre.

Upon reaching Mumbai, Ansari dies. Deodhar tempts Anant to toe the line, but Anant refuses. The team finds the file through journalist Bhaskar’s son. Shekhar and Mahalakshmi go to the General post office and recover the file, but Aangre ambushes them. Shekhar is lured into a stadium where it is revealed that Mahalakshmi is actually Aangre’s girlfriend and was planted on the team by Aangre to track their movements. The file is forfeited, Shekhar is shot, but not before he places a call to Anant, letting him know that Mahalakshmi is a double agent.

Anant and Ashwin now attack Naidu and make him spill the beans; they locate Aangre by following Mahalakshmi. In a shootout, Aangre uses Mahalakshmi as a shield and she dies. Anant chases Aangre and nabs him with a huge police force while Ashwin recovers the file.

With compelling evidence from the file, the court convicts Aangre, Deodhar and Naidu for life, much to the relief of Ansari’s family who is no longer branded a traitor, for whom Anant promises to take care of Ansari’s son. On route jail, Aangre sees the bolts holding his handcuffs loose. He grabs a rifle and tries to escape, only to realize the rifle is empty. Ashwin shoots Aangre and shows him the screws of the bolts, indicating that this was a setup for an encounter. He then calls headquarters, informing them that Aangre has been fatally wounded while trying to escape from custody “despite warning”, as the credits roll.

Cast

Amitabh Bachchan as DCP Anant Kumar Shrivastav
Ajay Devgan as Yashwant Angre, the main antagonist : Mahalakshmi’s Lover
Akshay Kumar as Senior Inspector Shekhar Verma
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as Mahalakshmi : Yashwant’s love interest ; Shekhar’s Lover
Tusshar Kapoor as Sub-Inspector Ashwin Gupte
Kamlesh Sawant as Constable Kamlesh Sawant
Sabyasachi Chakrabarty as a corrupt minister Deodhar
Prakash Raj as Additional Commissioner of Police Shrikant Naidu, Angre’s main mole in the police force
D. Santosh as Constable Gajanan Mhatre
Prasanna Ketkar as Constable Ghorpade from Chandangarh
Yusuf Hussain as Police Commissioner
Atul Kulkarni as Dr. Iqbal Ansari
Tanuja as Dr. Iqbal Ansari’s mother
Jaya Prada as Jaya Shrivastav
Vivek Vaswani as a smuggler
Ashwini Kalsekar as Kamlesh’s wife as a special appearance
Abir Goswami as Photographer as friendly appearance
Lara Dutta as an item dancer in “Aisa Jadoo”