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Shool (1999)
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Add to a movie listShool (Hindi: शूल, 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 politician-criminal 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 criminal-politician 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.
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The film opens with a late-night telephone call from Patna to Yadav's (Shinde) residence that the party he works for has selected another politician for the ticket this time. The Yadav lackeys trace their master to a prostitute's abode and give him the spoiler. Yadav wastes no time and gets that politician stabbed under his supervision. When his deadliest cohort, Sudhir Vinod, stabs him in right-side in breast, Yadav rebukes him for this "mistake" and stabs the half-dead man himself on the left, telling him jokingly that heart is on the left by reciting a famous Bollywood lyric.Actors
Manoj Bajpayee
(Inspector Samar Pratap Singh)
Sayaji Shinde
(Bacchu "Bhaiyyaji" Yadav)
Raveena Tandon
(Manjari Singh)
Vineet Kumar
Virendra Saxena
(Prabal Pratap Singh)
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