Police Force: An Inside Story

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Police Force
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Directed byDilip Shukla
Written byDilip Shukla
Starring Akshay Kumar
Raveena Tandon
Amrish Puri
Mohan Joshi
Alok Nath
Raj Babbar
Music by Anand–Milind
Satish-Ajay
Release date
  • 28 May 2004 (2004-05-28)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Police Force is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Dilip Shukla, starring Akshay Kumar, Raveena Tandon and Amrish Puri [1] [2]

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Plot

Police Academy trainer, Pandey, has been assigned to train some new recruits who are likely candidates for senior positions in India's Police Force. He does his best to train them, and get them assigned to their duties. What he is unable to teach them is about dishonest police officers, especially high-ranking ones; equally dishonest politicians, who have open links with gangsters and terrorists. These young men must now decide to carry on and compromise with this situation or become rebels and ultimately lose their jobs.

Cast

Soundtrack

With the exception of the song "Aahi Re Mai", which was composed by Satish-Ajay, The soundtrack of Police Force was composed by Anand–Milind, with lyrics penned by Sameer. The film has 6 original songs. The soundtrack was released on 1 December 2003 by Saregama. [3]

Track list

#SongSinger(s)Length
1"Rafta Rafta" Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik 4:44
2"Dil Churaya" Abhijeet, Alka Yagnik5:36
3"Chehre Mein"Sonu Nigam, Sadhana Sargam 4:38
4"Maina Kunwari" Vinod Rathod, Poornima 6:08
5"Chudiyaan" Richa Sharma 4:53
6"Maina Kunwari - 2"Vinod Rathod, Poornima 6:08
7"Aahi Re Mai" Shreya Ghoshal 6:12

Critical response

Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the film 1 star out of 5, writing "None of the performances really stand out. Akshay goes through his role without much of an effort. His stunts are well executed of course. Raveena looks least interested in the goings-on. Amrish Puri gives a good account of himself. Raj Babbar tends to go over the top. Mohan Joshi is as usual. On the whole, POLICE FORCE has nothing forceful about it. Dull. [1] Shruti Bhasin of Planet Bollywood gave a negative review stating "Our recommendation is that you check out a better quality cop flick such as Khakee or Ab Tak Chappan.". [4]

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References

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