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Khakee Movie (2004) Details :

Khakee is a 2004 Bollywood neo-noir action thriller film directer is Rajkumar Santoshi and writter are Santoshi and Sridhar Raghavan. The story revolves around an Indian police team on a mission to escort an accused terrorist from a small town in Maharashtra to Mumbai.Khakee stars an ensemble cast consisting of Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgan, Aishwarya Rai, and Tushar Kapoor.

It was theatrically released on 23 January 2004 to a widespread critical acclaim. the critical response was mostly positive, with praise towards the direction, performances, and story. Produced on a budget of 25.77 crore, Khakee earned a total of 49.89 crore at the worldwide box office, becoming one of the year’s highest-grossing Bollywood films.

• Directer : Rajkumar Santoshi
• Producer : Keshu Ramsay
• Writter : Rajkumar Santoshi,Shridhar Raghavan
• Starring : Amitabh Bachchan,Akshay Kumar,Ajay Devgn,Aishwarya Rai
• Music : Ram Sampath
• Cinematography : K. V. Anand
• Edited : Merzin Tavaria
• Production Company : D.M.S. Films
• Distributor : Amazon Prime Video,Eros Entertainment,Eros International,Eros Multimedia Pvt. Ltd.
• Production Design : Nitin Chandrakant Desai
• Costume Design : Dinesh Ramsay,Anna Singh
• Makeup Department : Noorjahan Ansari,Santosh Gayke,Aalim Hakim,Jayashree Kulkarni,Pradeep Mohate
• Special Effects : Mehboob Khan
• Visual Effects : Subir Bhattacharya,Chandrashekhar,M. Emmanuel,N. Vineth Ganesh
• Stunts : Ashok,Mahesh Dahiya,Haji Khan,Yakub Khan,Wilfred Pereira,Shankar,Tinnu Verma
• Genres : Action,Crime,Drama,Thriller
• Release date : 23 January 2004
• Running time : 180 minutes
• Country : India
• Language : Hindi

Khakee Movie Trailer :

Story of the film :

DCP Anant Shrivastav (Amitabh Bachchan) has been assigned the mission to escort terrorist Iqbal Ansari (Atul Kulkarni) from Chandangarh to Mumbai. His terrorist organization are determined to obtain him again. The plan for this is led by Yashwant Angre (Ajay Devgan), a ruthless killer and a former police officer. Anant’s team consists of Inspector Shekhar Sachdev (Akshay Kumar), rookie cop Ashwin Gupte (Tusshar Kapoor) and two more inspectors. Soon Mahalakshmi (Aishwarya Rai) joins them as she is the only witness to have seen Yashwant. The team are armed and ready to go but danger lurks everywhere as the terrorist organization are determined to make sure the officers do not make it to Mumbai. The trip turns into survival when the team are attacked at various times. Finally the team make it to an abandoned cottage in the forest but there is a shoot out and the team are heavily outnumbered. Shekhar tries to force an exchange but against Anant’s and Ashwin’s judgement. Finally Ansari, …

Star Cast of the film :

• Amitabh Bachchan as DCP Anant Kumar Shrivastav
• Akshay Kumar as Senior Inspector Shekhar Verma
• Ajay Devgan as Yashwant Angre, the main antagonist : Mahalakshmi’s Lover
• Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as Mahalakshmi : Yashwant’s Lover ; Shekhar’s love interest
• Tushar Kapoor as Sub-Inspector Ashwin Gupte
• Kamlesh Sawant as Constable Kamlesh Sawant
• Sabyasachi Chakrabarty as a corrupt minister Deodhar
• Prakash Raj as Additional Commissioner of Police Shrikant Naidu, Angre’s main mole in the police force
• D. Santosh as Constable Gajanan Mhatre
• Prasanna Ketkar as Constable Ghorpade from Chandangarh
• Yusuf Hussain as Police Commissioner
• Atul Kulkarni as Dr. Iqbal Ansari
• Tanuja as Dr. Iqbal Ansari’s mother
• Jaya Prada as Jaya Shrivastav
• Vivek Vaswani as a smuggler
• Ashwini Kalsekar as Kamlesh’s wife as a special appearance
• Abir Goswami as Photographer as friendly appearance
• Lara Dutta as an item dancer in “Aisa Jadoo”

Production :

The film’s co-writer Sridhar Raghavan, knew Santoshi, who wanted to make a cop film with Amitabh Bachchan, through Anjum Rajabali. During their meet, Raghavan narrated a script to Santoshi about cops which he liked. Raghavan said: “We kept that as a base and started working afresh, collaborating, writing, rewriting.” They created a character for Bachchan, inspired by Zanjeer in the “21st century situation”.

Film Casting :

Amitabh Bachchan was the first person to be cast in the film. Akshaye Khanna was supposed to play the role of Sub-Inspector Ashwin Gupte and Ajay Devgn was offered the role of Senior Inspector Shekhar Verma. While Khanna walked out, Devgn was chosen to play the villain, Yashwant Aangre, making it his second film as an antagonist after the 2002 thriller Deewangee. Later, Tusshar Kapoor was signed for the role of Ashwin Gupte. Lara Dutta was also signed for an item number “Aisa Jadoo”. After several actresses rejected the role of Mahalakshmi, Aishwarya Rai was finalized for the part. Akshay Kumar, who was signed to play Shekhar Verma, worked with Amitabh Bachchan for the third time after Ek Rishtaa: The Bond of Love and Aankhen.

Film Shooting :

The film was shot in various parts of Maharashtra, including Mumbai and Nashik. The fictional city of “Nairoli” shown in the film is actually the city of Apta near Panvel. The railway station of Apta was rechristened as Nairoli for the scene featuring the shoot-out at the station. Ram Sampath composed the music for the film, with lyrics by Sameer.

While filming in Nashik, Aishwarya Rai was hit by an out-of-control jeep and was thrown back into some bushes by the side of the road. She and Tusshar Kapoor were rehearsing a scene where the jeep was supposed to come and stop 20 feet away from them. However, the jeep driver lost control and did not brake. She suffered a fracture on her left foot and some bruises.

Khakee Movie Songs / Music :

The music is composed by Ram Sampath. Lyrics are penned by Sameer. Rajkumar Santoshi wanted A. R. Rahman to compose the music for the film; but the latter did not sign the project due to other commitments. Hence Sampath was selected after an audition.According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 10,00,000 units sold, this film’s soundtrack album was the year’s fourteenth highest-selling.

• “Aisa Jadoo” – Sunidhi Chauhan
• “Dil Dooba” – Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal
• “Mere Maula” – Richa Sharma, Kailash Kher
• “Uppar Wale” – Sonu Nigam, Sukhwinder Singh, Kunal Ganjawala
• “Wada Raha” (I) – Arnab Chakrabarty, Shreya Ghoshal
• “Wada Raha” (II) – Udit Narayan, Shreya Ghoshal
• “Wada Raha” (Sad) – Sonu Nigam
• “Teri Baahon Mein Hum” – Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal
• “Aisa Jadoo” (Remix) – Sunidhi Chauhan
• “Dil Dooba” (Remix) – Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal

“Dil Dooba” Full Video Song :

• Song – Dil Dooba
• Singer – Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal
• Lyricist – Sameer
• Music Director – Ram Sampat
• Music On – T-Series

”Wada Raha” Full Video Song :

• Song : Wada Raha Pyar Se Pyar Ka
• Singer : Arnab Chakraborty, Shreya Ghoshal
• Lyricist : Sameer
• Music Director : Ram Sampat
• Music Label : T-Series

Khakee Movie Awards :

50th Filmfare Awards :

• Rajkumar Santoshi – Best Director – Nominated
• Amitabh Bachchan – Best Actor – Nominated
• Akshay Kumar – Best Supporting Actor – Nominated
• Ajay Devgn – Best Performance in a Negative Role – Nominated

6th IIFA Awards :

• Ajay Devgn – Best Performance in a Negative Role – Nominated

Khakee Movie Review :

Khakee is a sure shot paisa basool movie. It has action, emotion, romance, comedy and probably each and every ingredients of commercial cinema for sure shot success. Khakee is a story of old DCP who is almost on the verge of retirement from the tenure of his long service. But unfortunately he has done nothing in his career instead of training new officers and policemen. But yes there is still some passion left in his blood and soul to do something before getting retirement. He is frustrated from the system and dirty politics because he was victimized from that every now and than. The day of his daughter’s marriage is also approaching very near & suddenly he got the assignment from his superiors that he has to supervise the team of a small task force for the very purpose of presenting a terrorist(Atul Kulkarni in the movie)safely in front of Judiciary. The assignment itself was very risky and important as few officials & policemen were killed before during the same process committed earlier.

Now lets introduced you with the all member of task force as it becomes so very important as the story progresses. Amitabh is of course a team leader, Akshay Kumar is there who is corrupt and lady killer kind of guy and there is Tushar, a new cop with honesty and enthusiasm to do something big for the nation and system and also there are few more constables. Amitabh, a very desperate man starts the operation with his team mates. He went to custody where Atul Kulkarni was kept getting unknown with the fact that they were followed by there opponents. On the course of there action they do realized there is someone who knows about each and every information regarding there future activities.

This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 7.4 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 14792.

Critics Rating by Neeshita Nyayapati , from Times Of India give 3.9 star out of 5 Star.

Khakee Movie Box Office Collection :

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