Sehar (2005)

Ajay Kumar the newly appointed, honest SSP of Lucknow police cracks down on the nefarious cop-mafia nexus in Uttar Pradesh, but finds a cunning and ruthless adversary in Gajraj. Can Ajay win this unjust war ?

Director:

Kabeer Kaushik

Writer:

Kabeer Kaushik

Stars:

Arshad Warsi, Pankaj Kapur, Mahima Chaudhry

Cast

Credited cast:
Arshad Warsi	...	SSP Ajay Kumar
Pankaj Kapur	...	Prof. Tiwari
Mahima Chaudhry	...	Anamika Kant
Sushant Singh	...	Gajraj Singh
Naved Aslam	...	Inspector Solanki
Suhasini Mulay	...	Prabha Kumar
Rajendra Gupta	...	ASD Kapoor
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ghanshyam Garg	...	Sub Inspector Baidyanath Mishra
Ravi Jhankal
Pratima Kazmi
Kali Prasad Mukherjee	...	Ramprasad Chaudhary
Surendra Pal
Vikram Sahu	...	Hariprasad
Rajendra Sethi	...	Satyapal Mehra
Vishnu Sharma	...	Chief Minister

Storyline

At the tender age of 8 Ajay Kumar is traumatized with the death of his army officer dad, who kills himself with his service revolver as he was being accused of being a deserter, leaving a widowed Prabha to bring up Ajay on her own. Ajay grows up, studies, and successfully becomes an IPS officer with the title of SSP. Due to his honesty, he gets transferred to various states in India. At this new posting in Uttar Pradesh he comes to terms with criminal don and ruthless killer Gajraj Singh. Ajay would like a set up a Special Task Force to deal with Gajraj, however, he does run into problems as Gajraj is politically well-connected. Then a child, who is a close friend of the state Chief Minister's, is kidnapped by Gajraj, and this paves the way for formation of the STF, consisting of about 8 honest and dedicated men, and this does results in the rescue of the child. Gajraj continues to elude the STF, using more modern technology such as the use of cell phones. But the STF bounces back and...

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Quotes

ASD Kapoor: Guptaji, to understand this one needs doordarshita... foresight.

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Connections

References Khal Nayak (1993)

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Soundtracks

"Faiz"
Written by Swanand Kirkire and Nilanjana Kishore
Composed by Daniel B. George
Performed by Pankaj Kapoor
Courtesy of Music Today

User Reviews

honest portrayal

Another remarkable cop drama in the line of -Ardha satya/ Shool/ Sarfarosh and Ab Tak Chhappan. Though hard-hitting and realistic, it is definitely different in the sense that here more than protagonist waging a war against system or dealing with the rampant corruption or getting into a jingoistic, heavy dialog baazi he rather gets into the nitty-gritty of nabbing an underworld Don of UP. Also it exposes the nexus between politicians, administrators, businessmen, mafia and the police quite effortlessly. To don both the caps of writer and director is nonetheless a rare feat for a débutant and ad filmmaker turned film director Kabir Kaushik comes out with flying colors. The cinematography (R.A.Krishnaa), editing (Amitabh Shukla), art direction (Narendra Rahurikar), locales, the dialogs, sound design (Biswadeep Chatterji), stunt sequences (Parveiz Fazal Khan), music (Daniel B. George) all deserve a special mention in giving film a required rawness and creating a tense environment. The film manages to strike a fine balance between realistic cinema and mainstream cinema, which is an uphill task, and come across as an intelligent film. Though it has some flaws too like the overall tone of the film is far too serious than is required and tempo drops at places. It is sad to see honest cops dying one by one. Even the end is depressing. Among performances, Arshad Warsi is fabulous in his underplayed mannerisms (his best till date). Portrayal of Villain (Sushant Singh) as a cool headed guy who does not loose his temper in worst of situations, matches rightly up to him. Others are equally competent though Mahima Chaudhary's styling needs to be toned down a bit. Thankfully there are no forced songs in the way of narration. This film adds to the list of new cinema emerged in past few months which is a welcome relief from the tried and tested path and will definitely be remembered as one of the best films released this year.