Sehar

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name = Sehar


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director = Kabeer Kaushik
producer = Ashwin Patel
writer = Kabeer Kaushik
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starring = Arshad Warsi
Mahima Chaudhary
Sushant Singh
Pankaj Kapur
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cinematography = R A Krishna
editing = Amitabh Shukla
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released = July 29, 2005
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country = IND
language = Hindi
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imdb_id = 0477857

"Sehar" (2005) is an Indian Hindi language action crime drama film directed by Kabeer Kaushik, starring Arshad Warsi, Pankaj Kapur, Sushant Singh and Mahima Chaudhary. Based on real-life incidents and individuals [ [http://movies.indiainfo.com/interview/kabeer-kaushik-interview-seher-270705.html Sehar is a film inspired by real-life incidents] ] , the film depicts organized crime in the late '90s in Uttar Pradesh, India and how the State Police worked to tackle it. It shows the turbulent journey of a newly appointed 31-year old SSP of Lucknow "Ajay Kumar" played by Arshad Warsi, instrumental in bringing together a group of committed police officers under the aegis of Special Task Force. The force, bequeathed with a single agenda, succeeds in challenging the might of organized crime in Uttar Pradesh. And in the process, what unfolds is the ever-changing dynamics of Uttar Pradesh's "Siyaasat": railway contracts, ISI involvement, politician-Mafia-police-builder nexus, pro-activism of criminal gangs, sophisticated yet rigid red tape and criminalization of University students.

Plot

Since a very tender age, Ajay Kumar (Arshad Warsi) is traumatized with the death of his army officer father, who kills himself with his service revolver as he was being accused of being a deserter, leaving a widowed Prabha (Suhasini Mulay) 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 his new posting in Uttar Pradesh he comes to terms with a new criminal don and ruthless killer, Gajraj Singh (Sushant Singh). Ajay engineers the set up of a Special Task Force to deal with Gajraj, however, he also runs into problems as Gajraj is politically well-connected. Gajraj continues to elude the STF, using more modern technology such as the use of cell phones. But the STF bounces back and is able to monitor Gajraj's cell phones - only to find out that Gajraj is going to contest the elections - and if he wins than no police officer of any rank, leave alone the STF, can dare to arrest him or even consider him a suspect, and which may well result in the STF being mere paper tigers.

Cast of characters

*Arshad Warsi as SSP Ajay Kumar
*Sushant Singh as Gajraj Singh
*Pankaj Kapur as Professor Bhole Shankar Tiwari
*Mahima Chaudhry as Anamika Kant
*Suhasini Mulay as Prabha Kumar
*Rajendra Gupta as ADG (Law and Order) Kapoor
*Naved Aslam as Inspector Joginder Singh Solanki
*Ghanshyam Garg as Sub Inspector Baidyanath Mishra
*Ujjwal Chopra as Inspector Sayyed
*Jeetpal as Inspector Yadav
*Vishnu Sharma as Chief Minister Raghuvir Singh
*Surendra Pal as Ramnath Mishra
*Ravi Jhankal as Dwivedi, Mishra's Secretary
*Rajendra Sethi as Satyapal Mehra, Builder
*Kelli Prasad Mukherji as Rituraj/ Hemraj Chaudhary
*Vikram Sahu as Hariprasad Singh, CM's friend
*Pratima Kazmi

References

External links

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* [http://ww.smashits.com/news/bollywood/movie-review/4711/sehar.html Smashits review]