Force (film series)

Last updated

Force series
Directed by
Written by
  • Ritesh Shah
  • (Force)
  • Parveez Shaikh
  • Jasmeet K. Reen
  • Abhinay Deo
  • (Force 2)
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography
Edited by
Music by
  • Sameer Phatarpeka
  • (Force)
  • Prasad Sasthe
  • (Force 2)
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 1 : 30 September 2011 (2011-09-30)
  • 2 : 18 November 2016 (2016-11-18)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Force is a series of Indian action-thriller film, produced by Vipul Amrutlal Shah. The first part directed by Nishikant Kamath released in 2011 [1] [2] and the second part directed by Abhinay Deo released in 2016 and after third part directed by Nishikant Kamath & Abhinay Deo released in 2025. [3] [4] [5] [6]

Contents

Overview

Force (2011 film)

Assistant Commissioner of Police Yashvardhan "Yash" Singh (John Abraham) Yash, is in the hospital, recalling the accident that changed his life forever. Yash is a dutiful, responsible and stone-hearted police officer in the Narcotics Control Bureau whose only passion in life is crime-fighting. He has no family or loved ones and has been alone in life since he can remember. Everything changes when Yash meets Maya (Genelia D'Souza), an independent and lovely woman. Though the two get off to a rocky start, Maya warms up to him once she realises he is a police officer, and apologises for the misunderstandings they had. When Maya gets hit by a car in front of Yash, he rushes her to the hospital. The two bond and start to meet and go out regularly. Maya confesses her love to Yash, but Yash refutes her advances, as he does not want her to become his weakness in his professional life. However, Swati (Sandhya Mridul), the wife of Yash's coworker and good friend, convinces Yash that he is in love with Maya as well and Yash decides to marry her.

In the big drug case the unit is investigating, Yash, along with officers from the Narcotics Control Bureau, DSP Mahesh Pande (Ameet M Gaur) who is transferred on special duty from the New Delhi Income Tax Department, Inspector Atul Kalsekar (Mohnish Bahl) and Inspector Kamlesh, kills Reddy (Mukesh Rishi) while he is peddling drugs. Yash, Mahesh and Kamlesh are suspended for killing Reddy instead of arresting him. Reddy's heartless and aggressive brother Vishnu Shetty (Vidyut Jamwal) vows to avenge his brother's death by killing all of the officers. Yash and the other officers prepare themselves for Vishnu, but Vishnu successfully breaks into Mahesh's home and brutally murders him after raping his wife Rachana (Anaitha Nair). The event leaves Yash and the other officers shaken but Yash and Maya's marriage take place. Meanwhile, Vishnu decides to attack each of the officers' weaknesses; he kidnaps Swati, Atul's wife, and Atul is forced to tell him where Yash will be that night. Yash and Maya consummate their marriage; however, this proves to be their first and last night together.

Yash is shot and Maya is kidnapped in the attack. Yash miraculously survives the attack. Vishnu tells Atul that he will release Swati if Atul kills Yash. However, Atul cannot bring himself to kill his friend and instead joins forces with Yash to execute a plan against Vishnu and save Maya and Swati. Yash, Atul and Kamlesh all go to the place where Vishnu has been keeping Maya and Swati hostage and find, in horror, that Swati has been murdered. In despair and heartbreak, Atul kills himself after seeing Swati's body. Yash and Kamlesh go together and face Vishnu in a final confrontation. Kamlesh is shot but survives. Vishnu shoots Maya in front of Yash and drops her from the second floor. Yash catches her but is unable to save her. Maya assures Yash that she has gotten her wish of being with him and dies in Yash's arms. Anger and sorrow build up in Yash and he brutally finishes off Vishnu, exacting his revenge.

Yash is shown living alone again, having returned to his professional life. Kamlesh calls Yash and tells him that he has found a new informer. Yash turns to Maya's photo before leaving and says that he will be coming home late.

Force 2 (2016 film)

Assistant Commissioner of Police Yashvardhan "Yash" Singh ( John Abraham) is a no non-sense police officer who still has a passion of crime fighting despite to losing his wife, Maya (Genelia D'Souza) five years ago and having her hallucination in present. He soon receives a news of murder of three R.A.W. agents, one of them was his best friend Harish.

Yash suddenly receives the clue from Harish before dying, the clue indicates that someone like a "SPY" working in Budapest embassy is planning to destroy R.A.W. team. Yash updates the information to Intelligence bureau director and R.A.W. head Anjan. Anjan suggest Yash to team-up with eastern European junior in-charge Sub Inspector Kamaljeet Kaur (Sonakshi Sinha) to go Budapest. Yash and KK reach to safe house in Budapest but suddenly they escape a blast, at this process he tells her about the same clue (means someone from Budapest embassy is leaking information and location of RAW agents).

Yash and KK shift to hotel to find more about embassy employees, she finds three suspects from database while he investigates alone with five employees who were included in database and they have party in club. Yash gets fourth suspect in whom he believes to be real culprit as KK does not believe. The fourth suspect is revealed to be Shiv Sharma (Tahir Raj Bhasin), a mastermind terrorist who has a mission to destroy RAW by providing locations and informations of RAW agents to his Chinese spies. Yash and KK decides to lure anyone in glass art museum by giving fake mail for Chinese spy recruitment. Shiv decodes the location and reaches with first suspect. After some investigation KK realizes that Yash was right, Yash goes to Shiv's home to track him down but Shiv later runs away, KK tries to catch Shiv but gets knocked by him. They arrest Shiv after a chase and decides to bring him to India at any cost. In every attempt they have to fight Shiv's men. They have failed to save another RAW agent in train station underground. In final attempt Shiv gets shot and gets rushed to hospital. Yash later learns that Shiv is alive then gets taunted and hinted by him. Yash checks KK's watch and realizes that tracking chip was placed in it when she was knocked.

Yash and KK take help from club dancer Martinez, who is used to help her. He suspects Martinez that she might not help him but in order to get Shiv's location he accepts offer for having one night stand with her. After having location Yash and KK finds Shiv's hideout but in chase they have failed to catch Shiv. Shiv then shifts another location and kills two more RAW agents. Yash's suspection turns true when Martinez is revealed to be working for Shiv.

After having another location Yash goes to another Hideout to collect a clue, a clue indicates a real birth date of Shiv. He learns from his colleague living in Mumbai that Shiv was dead ten years ago and realizes that it was his fake identity. Yash sends whole intelligence bureau team to orphanage at where Shiv was raised and learns that Shiv's real name is Rudra Pratap Singh, a son of former RAW agent Karan Pratap Singh who has been working for RAW from 30 years, he was disowned by Cabinet minister Brijesh Yadav and was killed, Rudra's mother has also committed suicide in this shock, at this process Yash realizes that Rudra wanted revenge not from RAW but from Brijesh. Yash declines from going to Berlin when his suspection was right and goes for Indo-Hungarian summit meeting to hunt down Rudra.

In summit KK is now able to shoot Brijesh but leaves him alive, Yash then defeats all Rudra's men. Rudra kills all men guarding Brijesh but gets stopped by KK before shooting Brijesh dead, Rudra tells his real identity to Brijesh and his plan to kill total 17 RAW agents in Hong Kong. Yash confronts and shoots Rudra, Yash then forces Brijesh in the process to remove negative label from all RAW agents and Rudra dies. Brijesh completes the work and gets interviewed. Maya's vision tells Yash that KK is his better love then her. This film ends with Yash and KK reunited together happily and watching Brijesh in news. This message shows unsung heroes or RAW agents who died to save India.

Cast and characters

CharacterFilm
Force
(2011)
Force 2
(2016)
A.C.P / D.C.P / J.C.P / S.D.G.P Yashvardhan "Yash" Singh John Abraham
Maya Singh Genelia D'Souza Genelia D'Souza
(Cameo Appearance)
Zonal Director Manish Singh Rajput Raj Babbar Raj Babbar
(Cameo Appearance)
Inspector Atul Kalsekar Mohnish Bahl Photo only
Sub Inspector / Senior Inspector / A.C.P / D.C.P Kamaljit Kaur/KK Sonakshi Sinha
Vishnu Reddy Vidyut Jamwal
Rudra Pratap Singh Tahir Raj Bhasin
Raghav Florence Sudheer Babu
Xavier Florence Anandaraj

Release and revenue

FilmRelease dateBudgetBox office revenue
Force 30 September 2011120 million (US$1.4 million) [7] 320 million (US$3.8 million) [8]
Force 2 18 November 2016450 million (US$5.4 million) [9] 785 million (US$9.4 million) [10]
Total900 million (US$11 million)1,160 million (US$14 million)

A third part of the series is in pre-production. [11]

Game

An official game based on Force 2 was launched after the release of the film by Hungama Digital Media. [12]

Music

Track listing of Force

All lyrics are written by Javed Akhtar

No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Khwabon Khwabon" KK, Suchitra Kumar, Jaspreet Jasz 5:21
2."Chahoon Bhi" Karthik, Bombay Jayashri, Neeraj Sridhar 4:54
3."Dum Hai Toh Aaja" (Composed by Lalit Pandit)Mahua Kamat5:05
4."Main Chali" Naresh Iyer, Shreya Ghoshal, Suzanne D'Mello 5:11
5."Dil Ki Hai Tamanna" Vijay Prakash, Shalini Singh, Neha Bhasin 5:32
Total length:26:00

Track listing of Force 2

Track listing
No.TitleLyricsMusicSinger(s)Length
1."Rang Laal" Kumaar Gourov-Roshin Dev Negi, John Abraham, Aditi Singh Sharma 3:45
2."O Janiya"KumaarGourov-Roshin Neha Kakkar 4:22
3."Catch Me If U Can"KumaarGourov-Roshin Amaal Mallik 4:21
4."Ishaara" Rashmi Virag Amaal Mallik Armaan Malik 4:12
Total length:16:40

See also

Related Research Articles

<i>Karam Apnaa Apnaa</i> 2006 Indian TV series or programme

Karam Apnaa Apnaa is an Indian soap opera which aired on StarPlus from 29 August 2006 to 27 March 2009. It was produced by Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms. It starred Sumeet Sachdev, Pallavi Subash, Muhammad Iqbal Khan and Yash Tonk in the lead roles.

<i>Ittefaq</i> (1969 film) 1969 Indian film

Ittefaq is a 1969 Indian mystery thriller film produced by B. R. Chopra and directed by his brother Yash Chopra. The film stars Nanda and Rajesh Khanna in the lead with Sujit Kumar, Bindu, Madan Puri and Iftekhar playing supporting roles and has music by Salil Chowdhury. The film became a "semi-hit" at the box office. The film is based on 1965 American movie Signpost to Murder. which was earlier adapted into a Gujarati drama Dhummas starring Sarita Joshi.

<i>New York</i> (2009 film) 2009 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film directed by Kabir Khan

New York is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language thriller film directed by Kabir Khan and produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films. The film stars John Abraham, Katrina Kaif, Neil Nitin Mukesh and Irrfan Khan. The film revolves around three friends studying at the fictional New York State University whose carefree and pleasant lives are changed by the September 11 attacks and its aftermath.

<i>Mata Ki Chowki</i> Indian drama television series

Mata ki Chowki is an Indian television series produced by Swastik Pictures, which aired on Sahara One from 9 June 2008 to 7 October 2011. The series produced 845 episodes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sonakshi Sinha</span> Indian actress (born 1987)

Sonakshi Sinha is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films and series. The daughter of actors and politicians Poonam and Shatrughan Sinha, she has appeared in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list from 2012 to 2017, and in 2019. She is the recipient of several accolades, including one Filmfare Award and two Zee Cine Awards.

<i>Kuch Tum Kaho Kuch Hum Kahein</i> 2002 film by K. Ravi Shankar

Kuch Tum Kaho Kuch Hum Kahein is a 2002 Indian Hindi romance drama film directed by Ravi Shankar. The film stars Fardeen Khan opposite Richa Pallod, who makes her Bollywood debut as lead actress. It released worldwide on 28 June 2002, and opened to a mixed response from critics and the public. The story is based on two lovers who are unable to start a relationship because of their family's feud and ancient grudge. The storyline is a remake of the Telugu movie Kalisundam Raa and features similarities with William Shakespeare's classical story, Romeo and Juliet.

<i>Force</i> (2011 film) 2011 Indian film

Force is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Nishikant Kamat. The film stars John Abraham, Vidyut Jammwal and Genelia D'Souza in the lead roles, with Raj Babbar, Mukesh Rishi, Mohnish Bahl and Kamlesh Sawant appearing in supporting roles. It is a remake of 2003 Tamil film Kaakha Kaakha.

<i>Bullett Raja</i> 2013 Indian film

Bullett Raja is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia and produced by Rahul Mittra, Nitin Tej Ahuja and Tigmanshu Dhulia under the banner of BrandSmith Motion Pictures, Rahul Mittra Films and Moving Pictures. The film features Saif Ali Khan, Sonakshi Sinha and Jimmy Sheirgill in the lead roles, while Vidyut Jammwal, Chunky Pandey, Ravi Kishan, Vishwajeet Pradhan, Gulshan Grover and Raj Babbar appear in supporting roles.

<i>Kick</i> (2014 film) 2014 film by Sajid Nadiadwala

Kick is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film produced and directed by Sajid Nadiadwala in his directorial debut under the Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment banner and starring Salman Khan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Randeep Hooda and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in the lead roles. An official remake of the eponymous 2009 Telugu original, it was made in collaboration with UTV Motion Pictures on a reported budget of 55 crore (US$6.6 million).

<i>Akira</i> (2016 Hindi film) 2016 film by A. R. Murugadoss

Akira is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film co-written, produced and directed by A. R. Murugadoss. It is a remake of the 2011 Tamil-language film Mouna Guru, and features Sonakshi Sinha, Konkana Sen Sharma and Anurag Kashyap in the lead roles.

<i>Force 2</i> 2016 Hindi film directed by Abhinay Deo

Force 2 is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Abhinay Deo and produced by Vipul Amrutlal Shah. The film features John Abraham, Tahir Raj Bhasin and Sonakshi Sinha in the lead roles. It is the sequel to the 2011 film Force and the second installment of the Force film series.

<i>Ittefaq</i> (2017 film) 2017 film by Abhay Chopra

Ittefaq is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language neo-noir mystery thriller film directed by Abhay Chopra, written by Chopra, Shreyas Jain and Nikhil Mehrotra, and produced by Gauri Khan and Shah Rukh Khan under Red Chillies Entertainment in association with Renu Ravi Chopra under B.R. Studios and Hiroo Yash Johar and Karan Johar under Dharma Productions. Modern day adaptation of eponymous 1969 film, which was directed by Yash Chopra, the film stars Akshaye Khanna, Sidharth Malhotra and Sonakshi Sinha, and has a Rashomon effect storytelling style.

<i>Naagini</i> Indian television series

Naagini is a 2016 Indian Kannada language supernatural fantasy television series that aired on Zee Kannada. The series, a remake of the Hindi series Naaginn, is directed by Hayavadana. The series premiered on 8 February 2016. Due to its success, a sequel Naagini 2, was released on 17 February 2020.

<i>Kaal Bhairav Rahasya</i> Indian TV series or programme

Kaal Bhairav Rahasya is an Indian thriller television series. The series ran for two seasons from October 2017 to April 2019. Both seasons are based on written works of Indra Soundarrajan. The story of the first season is based on his Tamil novel A Secret , The second season story is based on the supernatural thriller tale of Soundarrajan titled The Palace of Kottaipuram . The series features different cast in each season although many cast members appeared in both seasons as different characters.

<i>Genius</i> (2018 Hindi film) 2018 film directed by Anil Sharma

Genius is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language romantic psychological action thriller film directed by Anil Sharma. It marks the debut of his son Utkarsh Sharma as a male lead, who also featured as a child actor in Sharma's 2001 film Gadar: Ek Prem Katha. Ishita Chauhan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Mithun Chakraborty, with Ayesha Jhulka, and Malti Chahar play supporting roles in the film.

<i>Gandii Baat</i> Indian adult 18+ comedy web series

Gandii Baat is an Indian adult comedy web series directed by Sachin Mohite for ALTBalaji. Now this series has been removed from the ZEE5 and MX Player because of the adult content, since Indian government released new OTT Platform Rules.

<i>Dabangg 3</i> 2019 film directed by Prabhu Deva

Dabangg 3 is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Prabhu Deva and jointly produced by Salman Khan Films, Arbaaz Khan Productions and Saffron Broadcast & Media Limited. The third installment in the Dabangg film series, it is an official circumquel to Dabangg (2010) and Dabangg 2 (2012). The film stars Salman Khan, Sudeepa, Sonakshi Sinha, Saiee Manjrekar and Arbaaz Khan. It also features Pramod Khanna, Dimple Kapadia and Mahesh Manjrekar in supporting roles. Written by Salman, the story follows corrupt cop Chulbul Pandey's journey of conflict when he comes across an old ruffian, Bali Singh, whose plain sight refreshes his memory in a trudge down the past, unaware that this can affect the present and the future in more ways than one.

<i>War</i> (2019 film) 2019 film by Siddharth Anand

War is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film co-written & directed by Siddharth Anand and produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films. It is the third installment in the YRF Spy Universe and stars Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff, alongside Vaani Kapoor, Ashutosh Rana, Anupriya Goenka, Dipannita Sharma, Sanjeev Vatsa, Mashhoor Amrohi, Yash Raaj Singh, Arif Zakaria and Mohit Chauhan. In the film, Khalid Rahmani, an Indian RAW agent, is assigned to eliminate his former mentor Kabir Dhaliwal, who has gone rogue.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">YRF Spy Universe</span> Shared fictional universe

YRF Spy Universe is an Indian media franchise and shared universe centered on a series of spy action films, which feature various fictional RAW agents. The franchise also includes comic books, graphic novels and video games. The films are produced and distributed by Yash Raj Films.

<i>Dahaad</i> Indian TV series by Reema Kagti

Dahaad (transl. Roar) is a Hindi-language police procedural crime thriller television series created by Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar, directed by Kagti and Ruchika Oberoi, and starring Sonakshi Sinha, Gulshan Devaiah, Vijay Varma and Sohum Shah. It is inspired by Mohan Kumar, also known as Cyanide Mohan, a serial killer who preyed on women looking to get married.

References

  1. 'Force' postponed to 30, Sept. Archived 4 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine . Twitter (8 August 2011). Retrieved on 2011-08-08.
  2. "Boxofficeindia.com". Boxofficeindia.com. 12 September 2011. Archived from the original on 19 November 2011. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
  3. "Force 2". Bollywood Hungama . Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  4. "'Force 2′ to go on the floors in August". BizAsia. 30 June 2015. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  5. Thakur, Charu (19 May 2016). "Force 2: Sonakshi Sinha and John Abraham-starrer to release in November". India Today. Archived from the original on 28 September 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  6. "OMG! John Abraham will lift a car in 'Force 2'". Daily News and Analysis . 28 September 2016. Archived from the original on 28 September 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  7. "Force 18 crores". Bollydhamaka.gossipsjunction.com. 4 October 2011. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
  8. Force Falls Heavily in Second Weekend, BoxofficeIndia.com, archived from the original on 13 October 2011, retrieved 13 October 2011
  9. "Force 2 box office collection Day 2: John-Sonakshi's action forces demonetisation to bow down". India Today. Ist. Archived from the original on 11 August 2018. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
  10. "Box Office: Worldwide Collections and Day wise breakup of Force 2". Bollywood Hungama . 19 November 2016. Archived from the original on 23 February 2019. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
  11. "John Abraham confirms Force 3". 26 November 2016. Archived from the original on 23 February 2019. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
  12. "Official game of Force 2, starring John Abraham, Sonakshi Sinha launched". 21 November 2016. Archived from the original on 14 July 2018. Retrieved 23 February 2019.