Shotru

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Shotru
Shotru movie poster.jpg
Theatrical Poster of Shotru
Directed by Raj Chakraborty
Written byAbhimanyu Mukherjee
(Screenplay & Dialogues)
Story by Hari
Produced by Ashok Dhanuka
Starring Jeet
Nusrat Jahan
Supriyo Dutta
CinematographyP. Selvakumar
Edited byRabi Ranjan Maitra
Music by Indradeep Dasgupta
Production
company
Distributed by Eskay Movies
Release date
  • 3 June 2011 (2011-06-03)
Running time
166 minutes
Country India
Language Bengali

Shotru (English: Enemy) is a 2011 Indian Bengali-language action film directed by Raj Chakraborty and starring Jeet, Supriyo Dutta, and Nusrat Jahan. The film was produced and distributed by Eskay Movies, and is a remake of the earlier Tamil film, Singam. [1] Shotru was released on 3 June, 2011 alongside the film Paglu. The film performed well at the box office and was later dubbed into Hindi as "Ek Policewale Ki Taaqat".

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Synopsis

Dibakar Singha (Jeet) is a police sub-inspector from Hridaypur, working in the city of Howrah. Arjun Sarkar (Supriyo Dutta) uses a job as a real estate agent to cover for crimes, including kidnapping and extortion, getting police. Dibakar learns of his crimes and decides to try and kill him.

Dibakar falls in love with Puja (Nusrat Jahan), a woman who is visiting her grandfather on vacation. She convinces Dibakar to fight the corruption in the police department and Arjun.

Dibakar is promoted to the head of an anti-kidnapping squad by the Home Minister. He conducts raids on Arjun's hideout and imprisons Arjun's brother Karna, who is innocent. To free his brother, Arjun plans to kidnap Puja's younger sister, Diya, but Dibakar foils the attempt by catching two of the kidnappers. One of the kidnappers confesses that they were hired by Arjun, providing Dibakar with the necessary evidence to prove Arjun's involvement in 62 kidnappings. Dibakar announces that two kidnappers were apprehended and the money was recovered and will be used as a government asset unless someone lays claim to it.

Almost exposed for his involvement, Arjun plans to lure Dibakar to his hideout to kill him. Dibakar, however, learns of Arjun's plan to have him killed and decides to go meet Arjun in disguise. There he kills Ratan, a close friend of Arjun. Then, Dibakar tells Arjun that Ratan has agreed to be a state witness against him. To prevent this from happening, Arjun sends someone to kill Ratan in the hospital. When Karna, the assassin, arrives at the hospital, he is killed by Dibakar while on the phone with Arjun. Angered by this, tries to kill Puja, who escapes with a bullet in her arm.

Dibakar exposes his superior, the DSP (Biplab Chatterjee), as Arjun's mole in the police department. Having been exposed, the DSP is then forced into aiding Dibakar in exposing Arjun.

Arjun kidnaps the daughter of the Assam Home Minister and takes her to Jharkhand. Dibakar pursues him and kills Arjun.

At a ceremony to honour Dibakar for his actions, he announces that he will return to his village and that he has finished what he set out to do in the city. Puja is shown accompanying him on this journey.

Cast

Soundtrack

Shatru
Soundtrack album by
Released3 June 2011
Genre Film soundtrack
LanguageBengali
Label Eskay Movies
Producer Ashok Dhanuka

The music of the film is composed by Indradeep Dasgupta, with lyrics by Srijato.

Track listing
No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Title songs" Rupam Islam 4:25
2."Aye khuda" Shaan, Aditi 5:37
3."Rakhe hori" Javed Ali 5:56
4."Janina kobe" Shaan, Anwesha 3:44
5."Jwaliye Puriye" Timir, June Banerjee 4:20
6."Ore Oh Baul Mon" Monali Thakur, Soham, Javed Ali 5:00

Listing Box Office

The film was critically acclaimed by critics and was declared a "superhit" at the box office.[ citation needed ]

The dialogue from Jeet's Dibakar Singha, "Ami Kono Ishwar noiJee chere debo aar Rakshosh noyJee mere debo. Ami holam Police... saala chara aar maarar majhkhane lotke rekhe debo" (transl.I am neither a God who will release nor a monster who will kill. I am Police... I will hang you scoundrel between releasing and killing.) became very popular among the audience.

Television Premiere

The film premiered on Zee Bangla on 25 March 2012 at 7:00 pm I.S.T.

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