Drohkaal

Drohkaal
Directed by	Govind Nihalani
Written by	Govind Purushottam Deshpande, Govind Nihalani, Anjum Rajabali, Atul Tiwari
Starring	Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah
Music by	Vanraj Bhatia, Anjan Biswas, Sunil Kaushik, Taufiq Qureshi
Cinematography	Govind Nihalani, Malay Roy
Editing by	Dilip Panda
Studio	Udbhav Productions
Release date(s)	31 August 1994
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Drohkaal (English: Times of Betrayal) is a 1994 Indian film directed and produced by Govind Nihalani which deals with India's fight against terrorism. The film examines the mental and psychological trauma that honest police officers go through in their fight against a group of ruthless terrorists. This movie was remade into Kuruthipunal, produced by Kamal Haasan and directed by P. C. Sreeram, which received much better criticism and positive reviews.^{[by whom?][citation needed]}

Cast

• Om Puri as DCP Abhay Singh
• Naseeruddin Shah as DCP Abbas Lodhi
• Mita Vashisht as Sumitra Singh
• Ashish Vidyarthi as Commander Bhadra
• Amrish Puri as IGP Pathak
• Milind Gunaji as Shiv
• Shrivallabh Vyas as Inspector Tiwari
• Manoj Bajpai as Anand
• Sudam

Awards

Ashish Vidyarthi won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor. His performance was cited as "bringing credibility to his role with strength and total conviction". In 1996, Mita Vasisht won the Star Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress.^[1] In 1995, Nihalani won the Best Director Award at the Damascus International Film Festival for the film.

References

1. ^ "Mita Revamped". Indian Express. 6 November 1998. http://www.indianexpress.com/Storyold/61043/. Retrieved 18 August 2011. 

External links

Drohkaal at the Internet Movie Database