Ab Tak Chhappan (2004)

Director:

Shimit Amin

Writers:

Sandeep Srivastava (dialogue)
Sandeep Srivastava (screenplay)

Release Date:

27 February 2004 (India)

Genre:

Crime

Tagline:

Doctors cure, engineers build, I kill

Plot:

Aan honest cop named Sadhu Agashe makes a name for himself by killing criminals in sting operations instead of locking them up in prison...

Awards:

2 wins & 15 nominations

Cast

Nana Patekar	...	Inspector Sadhu Agashe
Yashpal Sharma	...	Sub-Inspector Imtiaz Siiddiqui
Prasad Purandhare	...	Don Zameer
Nakul Vaid	...	Sub-Inspector Jatin Shukla
Kunal Vijaykar	...	Sub-Inspector Francis Alvarez
Jeeva	...	Commissioner M.I. Suchek
Revathy	...	Mrs. Namita Sadhu Agashe
Mohan Agashe	...	Ex-Commissioner Pradhan
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dibyendu Bhattacharya	...	Zameer's Gang
Hrishitaa Bhatt	...	Vaishali / Mrs. Jatin Shukla
Megan Cocks	...	Melinda
Helen	...	Feroz' Mother
Anant Jog
Ravi Kale
Parvez Khan	...	Feroz (as Parvez Fazal Khan)
Dinesh Lamba

Also Known As:

56 So Far (India: English title) (informal title) (International: English title) (informal literal title)
Till Date 56 (International: English title) (literal title)

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

India:A | Australia:MA

Filming Locations:

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Company:

K Sera Sera

Trivia:

Although high, 56 is not an unheard of kill count for an encounter specialist. The record "score" is around 110.

Close Encounter of the Good Cinema Kind.

Nana Patekar-" Morgan Freeman" of Indian Cinema has given some great perfs. as a village head in "Shakti",a mute in "Khamoshi". No one with an eye for good acting can miss the brilliance of this performer. A good Script,a good supporting Cast like Revathi, Yashpal Sharma and a crisp editing and direction makes this movie a winner. There are some great scenes and dialog-like when he first meets Zameer and explains him the "nuisance value"-when he invites his subordinate for dinner and cooks "Sambar".The movie is dominated and sustained by Patekar who takes you into the web of Underworld,deceit,deception and corruption which may border on exxageration at some point but the outline to some extent is real life dilemma faced by the law enforcement. The word "Encounter" is a misnomer but it is accepted as most accept the word "Bollywood". Any movie that can hold your interest with one actor and a clever dialog is a good movie and coming from an established film House-it is even better.