Pokiri (2006 film)

Pokiri English Rogue is a 2006 Indian Telugu action film, written and directed by Puri Jagannadh. The film was produced by Jagannadh and Manjula Ghattamaneni by their respective production companies Vaishno Academy and Indira Productions. The film stars Mahesh Babu and Ileana DCruz Prakash Raj, Nassar and Sayaji Shinde appear in prominent roles. The plot revolves around the life of an undercover police officer, Krishna Manohar, who infiltrates a mafia gang headed by a Dubaibased don Ali Bhai, under the pseudonym Pandu.

In Hyderabad, two rival mafia gangs headed by Dubaibased don Ali Bhai, and Narayana resort to criminal activities such as extortion, murder, and coercion for various reasons. The new commissioner of police, Sayyad Mohammad Pasha Qadri, focuses on making the city a better place by working at arresting all of them. Pandu, a remorseless gangster living in Hyderabad along with his friends, is hired by Narayana and attacks Ali Bhais henchmen. He later joins Ali Bhais gang for monetary reasons. He falls in love with Shruti, an aerobics teacher, who rejects his advances.Shruti lives with her widowed mother and brother and her neighbour Brahmi, a software engineer, who pesters her to marry him. A corrupt police officer named Pasupathy, who works for Ali Bhai, also falls in love with Shruti. He is determined to make her his mistress, undeterred by Shrutis multiple rejections. After Pandu kills a henchman of Narayana, he is confronted by Pasupathy and is able to prevent Shruti from being molested. She meets him the next day to thank him, and Pandu introduces himself as a selfemployed person who undertakes any activity for money. They develop unspoken romantic feelings for each other angering Pasupathy. ........

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