Shool (1999)
शूल
Police Inspector Samar Pratap Singh is transferred to Motihari, in the Indian state of Bihar, along with his wife, Manjari and a daughter. He is honest and diligent and these attributes sets him up against his superior - the District Superintendent of Police, as well as his subordinates and fellow officers.
- Date of release
- 1999-11-04
- TMDB
- 7.1 / 10 (20)
- Runtime
- 2h 22m
- Genres
- Action, Crime
- Director
- Eeshwar Nivas
Casting
- Manoj Bajpayee — Inspector Samar Pratap Singh
- Sayaji Shinde — Bacchu "Bhaiyyaji" Yadav
- Raveena Tandon — Manjari Singh
- Shilpa Shetty Kundra — Item Girl
- Nawazuddin Siddiqui — Waiter
- Rajpal Yadav — Violent Coolie
- Ganesh Yadav — Inspector Hussain
- Yashpal Sharma — Lallan Singh
- Veerendra Saxena — Prabal Pratap Singh
- Vineet Kumar — Inspector Tiwari
- Shri Vallabh Vyas — D.S.P
- Pratima Kazmi — Bhachhu Yadav's Mother
Interesting facts
Shool (transl. Spike) is a 1999 Indian Hindi-language action drama film directed by Eeshwar Nivas. Written and produced by Ram Gopal Varma, it portrays the politician-criminal nexus and the criminalization of politics in Bihar and its effect on the life of an honest police officer. It stars Manoj Bajpayee as Inspector Samar Pratap Singh and Sayaji Shinde as the criminal-politician Bachhu Yadav.
Production
Shool was shot in Motihari, Bettiah, Bhopal, and Hyderabad.
The climax of the film was shot at the state legislative assembly premises of Hyderabad, and Bhopal. The casting of the film is done by Varma and Kashyap.
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