Shool

Shool Hindi , English Thorn is a 1999 Indian Hindi crime drama film written, produced by Ram Gopal Varma and directed by E. Nivas. The film portrays the politiciancriminal nexus and the criminalisation of politics in the state of Bihar, and its effect on the life of an honest police officer. The film starred Manoj Bajpai as Inspector Samar Pratap Singh and Sayaji Shinde as the borderline psychopath criminalpolitician Bachhu Yadav. The climax of the film was entirely shot at the state Legislative Assembly in Hyderabad. The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.

Meanwhile, Inspector Samar Pratap Singh Bajpai arrives at Motihari, where he has been transferred, with his wife Raveena Tandon and daughter. At the railway station he confronts a coolie Rajpal Yadav. The two have a tiff on Rsto be paid to the latter for which Singh refuses to pay, as he rightfully thinks he is being overcharged. As the situation goes to the verge of fisticuffs, a local police hawaldar intervenes. Not knowing that Singh too is a police officer,the hawaldar tries to manhandle Singh. Infuriated, Singh takes the matter to the police station to which he is posted. As Singh writes a complaint against the hawaldar for harassing a local Singh, another inspector Hussain intervenes. Hussain asks for forgiving hawaldar, for which Singh doesnt relent. Singh later learns that the Motihari police station is ruled by local politician and criminal Bachhu Yadav and his henchmen. Singh is an idealist who respects the constitution and the law, and expects that everyone else should do the same. But no one follows the law in Motihari, especially the policemen who receive hafta illicit weekly payments from Yadav to do his bidding.One day, the Deputy Superintendent of Police Shrivallabh Vyas asks Singh to break up a fight between two rival gangs, and arrest the people who attacked some of Yadavs men. Singh investigates and finds that Yadavs men were the real culprits. Among them were Sudhir Vinod Nagesh Bhosle and Lallan singh Yashpal Sharma, and so Singh arrests them instead. When the D.S.P. orders him to release them, he refuses to do so, saying that he has already registered the case. This is the first time his superior learns of his real character and expresses concern over his future. Sub Inspector Hussain, who shamelessly admits subjection to Yadav, declares that Singh wont last long. Singh sadly learns the limit of his official prowess when the court releases Yadavs men the men who were beaten up refuse to testify, understandably out of fear of Yadavs wrath.

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