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19 August 1983 (India)
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Om Puri | ... | Sub-inspector Anant Velankar |
 | Smita Patil | ... | Jyotsna Gokhale |
 | Amrish Puri | ... | Anant's Father |
| Shafi Inamdar | ... | Inspector Hyder Ali |
| Achyut Potdar | ... | Inspector Patil |
| Sadashiv Amrapurkar | ... | Rama Shetty |
| Naseeruddin Shah | ... | Mike Lobo |
| Prabhakar Patankar | ||
| Rafique Mukadam | ||
| Madhuri Purandare | ||
| Shanta Gokhale | ||
| Ila Arun | ||
| Leela Jariwala | ||
| Arun Kakde | ||
| Suresh Bhagwat |
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Half Truth
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The entire film was shot as per the script written by Vijay Tendulkar. But during the climax, Govind Nihalani somehow had a different vision than the writer. But Vijay Tendulkar was too senior a person and Govind Nihalani did not want to let him down. So Govind Nihalani shot two ends for the film - one that was written by Vijay Tendulkar in the script and other that was his own vision. He showed both versions to the writer and finally Vijay Tendulkar gave Govind Nihalani consent to retain his own ending.
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An absolute classic !! The direction is flawless , the acting is just superb. Words fall short for this great work. The most definitive movie on Mumbai Police. This movie has stood the test of times.
Om Puri gives a stellar performance, Smita Patil no less. All the actors have done their best and the movie races on thrilling you at every moment. This movie shakes your whole being badly and forces you to rethink about many issues that confront our society.
This is the story of a cop (Om Puri ) who starts out in his career as a honest man but ultimately degenerates into a killer. The first attempt in Bollywood to get behind the scenes and expose the depressing truth about Mumbai cops. Kudos to Nihalani !!
After this movie a slew of Bollywood movies got released that exposed the criminal-politician-police nexus. Thus this movie was truly a trend setter. This trend dominated the Hindi movie scene for more than a decade.
This movie was a moderate box office hit.
A must-see for discerning movie fans.