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`Khakee' is a realistic take on the police force.
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SCRIPTED BY Rajkumar Santoshi and Sridhar Raghavan, Khakee is a realistic portrayal of the police. "It is an action thriller — a film in the mainstream genre," says Santoshi. "When the police were in the headlines last year due to good and bad reasons, I thought of exploring them as human beings, their dilemmas, problems and their state of mind." Amitabh was foremost in Santoshi's mind. "When I began thinking of the project I was keen to do it with Amitabh Bachchan."
Sridhar has been fascinated with the police having done considerable research and writing over the years on these "ordinary people in an extraordinary situation," as he puts it.
"On one level Khakee is about the cops, on another level it is about certain issues in society," adds Sridhar.
"Khakee is about how a group of completely dissimilar cops (in age, temperament, attitude, morals and ethics and social backgrounds) deal with certain issues facing all of us," sums up Sridhar. Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgan and Tusshar Kapoor play the main protagonists. The characters evolved with the process of filming. Says Sridhar "Mr. Bachchan was living the character so obviously he had some great ideas on how that character would react... so those ideas and dialogues were incorporated. A lot of humour in the Akshay Kumar character comes from the real Akshay Kumar and so much of the menace of Ajay Devgan's character comes from his interpretation of the character which we absorbed in the screenplay.
Tusshar is young, idealistic, very curious about the world around him and that reflects his character perfectly and so adds to it. Everybody contributed to making it real."
The film is shot in Pune, Nasik and Mumbai. Jayaprada, who plays Amitabh Bachchan's wife, endorses the realistic aspect of the film. "It is a honest film which projects the good impact of the police. Amitabh plays a sincere police officer who faces hurdles. As his wife I have to cope with him and his problems."
R.R.
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