Police Story (1996 film)

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Police Story
Directed by Thriller Manju
Written byThriller Manju
S. S. David (story)
Produced byG. H. Gurumurthy
N. Narasimha Murthy
Starring P. Sai Kumar
P. J. Sarma
Satya Prakash
Shobaraj
Avinash
Sudheer Babu
Raymond Desouza
Rockline Venkatesh
Cinematography J. G. Krishna
Edited byR. Janardhan
Music by Sadhu Kokila
Production
company
Gururaya Film Makers
Distributed byGajula Nageswara Rao (Telugu)
Release date
16 August 1996
Running time
166 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageKannada

Police Story is a 1996 Indian Kannada-language action film directed by Thriller Manju from a story written by S. S. David. It stars an ensemble cast featuring P. Sai Kumar, Shobaraj, Satya Prakash, Avinash, Girija Lokesh, Rockline Venkatesh, Sudheer Babu and Raymond D'Souza. The film was simultaneously made in Telugu and Tamil under the same name. It was dubbed in Hindi as Agni IPS.

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Police Story emerged as a commercial success and became a cult classic, which lead to sequels Police Story 2 (2007) and Police Story 3 (2011). [1] [2]

Plot

Agni is a short-tempered cop who uses unconventional methods of punishing the gangsters, which is later criticised by the ministers. This leads Agni to resign himself from the job, but later rejoins after being coaxed by his elder brother. A Mumbai-based CBI officer has been appointed to handle a case of a gangster named "Black Tiger". The senior official reveals about a deceased gangster named Shobraj, who was responsible for the death of all the police officials after his wife was molested and killed by his nemesis.

Sathya and Dharma are two gangsters who terrorises Bangalore with their unlawful activities. Being a gangster in college, Dharma throws a girl off a building after she rejects his love. The student, who was in love with that girl, turns insane and becomes a witness, but is later killed by Sathya. With this, Agni clashes with Sathya and Dharma. The CBI officer gets killed by a corrupt minister, who is Sathya's right-hand man. Agni's brother also dies while trashing Black Tiger's henchman Black Cobra. It is later revealed that Shobraj is actually alive and is none other than Black Tiger.

The corrupt Inspector kills another Inspector to destroy evidence behind the CBI officer's death, who is killed after getting hit by a truck. In order to seek justice, Agni brings a mute youngster as a witness to this case, but Sathya shoots him in the court premises. Agni shoots Sathya and points his gun towards Dharma, who accepts his wrongdoings out of fear. It is revealed that the judge had killed the mute youngster in the hospital and the photos before the court hearing, where his photos were captured by a journalist. Towards the end, Agni arrests Black Tiger and his efforts have been appreciated by the CM.

Cast

Production

Saikumar who gained recognition as a star with Lockup Death (1994) acted in this film under the direction of Thriller Manju, a stunt choreographer who made his directorial debut with this film. The Kannada and its dubbed Telugu version were successful and gained a breakthrough for Saikumar and it led to him being typecast in similar roles. [3] [4]

Sequels

A sequel titled Police Story 2 saw Saikumar reprising his role which was released in 2007. [5] The third unrelated film was released in 2011.

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References

  1. ↑ Police Story (1996) - Telugu Movie Watch Online
  2. ↑ Thriller Manju - Movies, Photos, Filmography, Biography, Wallpapers, Videos, Fan Club - entertainment.oneindia.in
  3. ↑ Murthy, Neeraja (20 February 2011). "His own voice". The Hindu.
  4. ↑ "Sai Kumar interview - Telugu Cinema interview - Telugu film actor".
  5. ↑ "Return of the super cop". The Hindu. 8 February 2007.
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