Kagaar

Der junge, naive Bhaskar landet in Mumbai, um dort seinen vermissten Bruder zu suchen - und findet ihn im Leichenschauhaus. Bhaskar tritt in den Polizeidienst ein, macht Karriere, wird verwundet - und steht plötzlich dem Auftragsmörder Adi gegenüber. Die beiden kennen sich seit Jahren, sind sie doch im selben Dorf gemeinsam aufgewachsen. N. Chandras preisgekrönter Film basiert auf einer realen Begebenheit. Er erzählt die Geschichte einer Nacht und einem dramatischen Showdown. An tatsächlichen Locations gedreht, sparsam mit künstlicher Szenenausleuchtung und einigen Laienschauspielern aus dem Milieu bringt knallharten Realismus auf die Leinwand.

Naive, simple-minded, and illiterate Bhaskar Sarnaik (Amitabh Dayal) comes to Bombay from his far-off village, to look for his missing brother, Raghuvir. He comes in contact with Sub-Inspector Gokhale (Om Puri), who feels sorry for him, and not only offers to find his brother, but also employment at an Irani Restaurant. Bhaskar does find his brother - in the morgue - but decides not to tell his mother as this may break her heart. He decides to stay on in Bombay and undergoes training to become a police officer. A short time later he is also a Sub-Inspector working closely with Gokhale. He is wounded in an encounter, and his mother comes to look after, and gets him to marry Aditi (Nandita Das) from the same village, which Bhaskar does so. Then the police must hunt for Adi, a notorious hit-man. When Bhaskar comes face to face with Adi, he does not shoot him, and as a result Adi escapes. Adi then gives an interview on television that he is the child-hood friend of Bhaskar, and that he ...