Khakee (2004)

Khakee Movie Trailer 2004

Crew

Directed by     Rajkumar Santoshi
Produced by     Keshu Ramsay
Screenplay by     Rajkumar Santoshi ,Shridhar Raghavan
Story by     Rajkumar Santoshi,Shridhar Raghavan
Music by     Ram Sampath
Cinematography     K. V. Anand
Editing by     Merzin Tavaria
Distributed by     DMS Films Private Limited

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan as DCP Anant Kumar Shrivastav
    Akshay Kumar as Senior Inspector Shekhar Verma
    Tusshar Kapoor as Sub-Inspector Ashwin Gupte
    Kamlesh Sawant as Constable Kamlesh Sawant
    D Santosh as Constable Gajanan Mahatre
    Atul Kulkarni as Dr. Iqbal Ansari
    Aishwarya Rai as Mahalakshmi
    Sabyasachi Chakravarthy as Minister Deodhar
    Prakash Raj as Additional Commissioner of Police Naidu
    Yusuf Hussain as Police Commissioner
    Ajay Devgan as Yashwant Angre, a former police officer
    Tanuja as Dr. Iqbal Ansari's mother
    Jaya Prada as Jaya Srivastav
    Lara Dutta as herself (cameo appearance in the song 'Aisa Jadoo')
    Vivek Vaswani as smuggler

Story

DCP Anant Shrivastav (Amitabh Bachchan) has been assigned the mission to escort terrorist Iqbal Ansari (Atul Kulkarni) from Chandangarh to Mumbai. His terrorist organization are determined to obtain him again. The plan for this is led by Yashwant Angre (Ajay Devgan), a ruthless killer and a former police officer. Anant's team consists of Inspector Shekhar Sachdev (Akshay Kumar), rookie cop Ashwin Gupte (Tusshar Kapoor) and two more inspectors. Soon Mahalakshmi (Aishwarya Rai) joins them as she is the only witness to have seen Yashwant. The team are armed and ready to go but danger lurks everywhere as the terrorist organization are determined to make sure the officers do not make it to Mumbai. The trip turns into survival when the team are attacked at various times. Finally the team make it to an abandoned cottage in the forest but there is a shoot out and the team are heavily outnumbered. Shekhar tries to force an exchange but against Anant's and Ashwin's judgement. Finally Ansari, after weeks of frustration, reveals that the terrorists are also out to kill him. He reveals a corrupt world involving the police and politicians. The officers soon realize the enemy they have been fighting is closer to them...In the end, Shekhar is killed by Mahalakshmi and her associate Angre. This killing spites anger into Anant and he hunts down each one of the corrupt officers and in the end, captures Angre after a fight during which, Despite Anant needing his medication often, he wins, and Angre is successfully captured. The movie ends as Angre is tried and sentenced to prison, and is being carried to his sentence; when he decides to flee, as a nut is lose in the bar to which he is handcuffed in the police van. Angre has Ashwin on gun point using a constable's rifle, when Ashwin reveals that Angre's lose nut was a setup to allow the killing of Angre, and that the bullets of the rifle had been emptied. Ashwin then shoots Angre, and reports his death as murder in an encounter.

Did you know?

1. Akshaye Khanna was initially approached to play Sub Inspector Ashwin Gupte.
2. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan injured her leg in a jeep accident during filming.
3. Jayapradha had a full-fledged role, but because of her commitment to her sick husband who was hospitalized, her role was trimmed down to a guest appearance.
4. Rajkumar Santoshi wanted to make a film about cops with Amitabh Bachchan ever since he was involved as an assistant in Ardh Satya.
5. Rajkumar Santoshi had wanted Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to be in his film since he dropped her out of Lajja.
6. The director's initial plan was to hire all the main actors with names starting with alphabet A. Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgan, Akshay Kumar, Aishwarya Rai, Atul Kulkarni, Amrish Puri and Akshaye Khanna. However, Akshaye Khanna dropped out and was replaced with Tushhar Kapoor on short notice (hence the odd one out).
7. Rajkumar Santoshi narrated the story of the movie to Amar Singh (politician), who had arranged the meeting with Amitabh Bachchan and the film started with his blessings. Also, during the film's production he went out of his way to obtain permission to shoot on the train. Hence the reason Amar Singh is thanked in the opening credits.
8. The actor's name who played the role of Constable Kamlesh Sawant is Kamlesh Sawant.
9. Ram Sampath's first mainstream Hindi film as a music director.
10. Ajay Devgan's second negative role after Deewangee (2002).
11. Prakash Raj's voice was dubbed.