Police Officers (film)

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Police Officers
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Directed byAnand P. Raju
Screenplay byM. S. Ramesh
R. Rajashekhar
Story by Madan Mallu
Produced byM. Shivashankar
Starring Charan Raj
Thriller Manju
CinematographyS. Manohar
Edited byS. Prasad
Music byShivamaya
Production
company
Mayur Films
Release date
  • 3 May 2002 (2002-05-03)
Running time
132 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageKannada
BudgetRs 0.6 million [1]

Police Officers is a 2002 Indian Kannada-language action drama film directed by Anand P. Raju, starring Charan Raj and Thriller Manju in lead roles.

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Plot

William Stuart and Rosna Barker visit the Vidhana Soudha and see a procession of auto rickshaw drivers worshipping Goddess Annamadevi. While leaving the procession, Stuart and Baker go to eat a small restaurant in Chamarajpet although Baker isn't feeling well. Due to her pain, they both leave the restaurant when Stuart gets attacked by four men who also disturb Barker as she gets on an auto rickshaw. She was raped by the auto driver. Stuart's corpse is discovered by a man near a train track. Barker goes to the Vijayanagar police station and based on her retellings of the incident, they try to nab the culprit. She initially doesn't remember who her rapist was leading her to falsely identify her rapist as innocent. A fictious sub-plot involves Naganna trying to stop a young man from selling his girlfriend into prostitution. [1] [2]

Cast

Production

"It was the experience of a lifetime. [...] I am sure we will never get the opportunity to act in another Indian film! It was all great fun. [...] I never expected to feel all I did when I acted in the film. I understood, in a very personal manner, for the first time, the emotional trauma women victims go through with an attack of this kind"

 — Lillen Guildberg on the film, 2002 [1]

The film is based on two different incidents that happened on the same night when a British couple visited Bangalore in December 1996: four men stole money and killed William Stuart and his girlfriend, Rosna Barker, was raped by an auto rickshaw driver. Madan Mallu, who wrote the film's story, also linked it to a similar incident that occurred in Chennai. [2]

Mallu chose Anand P. Raju as the director since he had worked on several police-based movies. To brief himself on the case, Mallu asked several of his friends that were police officers about the case apart from Bangalore police officers B. B. Ashok Kumar and Bawa. Charan Raj and Thriller Manju played police officers investigating the case and Shobaraj played the rapist. Mallu's friend advertised in London for the roles of the British couple before finding the student couple Lillen Goldberg and Clara, who had experience in theatre. They shot their portions in the first 18-day schedule in Bangalore. Goldberg reportedly felt distressed after watching Clara's acting in the rape scene. [1]

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Shivamayya, Mallu's brother. [1] [3]

Track listing
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Chamku Gimaku"S. Manjunath RaoShivamaya, Sujatha Mohan, Sahil4:39
2."Hosa Hudugi"S. Manjunath RaoShivamaya, Sowmya Rao, Rajesh Krishnan 4:54
3."Namamma Annamma"S. Manjunath RaoShivamaya, Rajesh Krishnan5:39
4."Police Officers"D. BharatShivamaya, Ravi Raj, Jony, Murali, Sahil5:11
5."Soundarya Naachide"S. Manjunath RaoShivamaya, Rajesh Krishnan, Sujatha Mohan4:55
Total length:25:18

Box office

The film was a box office success running well into its second week. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Police Officer: Real to reel". Rediff.com . 15 May 2002. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  2. 1 2 Srinivasa, Srikanth (2 May 2002). "A real life tragedy captured on the screen". Deccan Herald . Archived from the original on 8 October 2002. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  3. ↑ "Police Officers - All Songs - Download or Listen Free - JioSaavn". JioSaavn . 19 October 2007. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
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