Shagird (2011 film)

Shagird (transl. Disciple) is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia starring Nana Patekar as Hanumant Singh, Mohit Ahlawat as Mohit Kumar, and Rimi Sen as Varsha Mathur. The film was released on 13 May 2011. Despite a positive critical reception, the film failed to perform well commercially.

Shagird
Directed by	Tigmanshu Dhulia
Written by	Tigmanshu Dhulia Kamal Pandey
Produced by	Hussain Shaikh Purvi Lavingia-Vats
Starring	Nana Patekar Zakir Hussain Mohit Ahlawat Rimi Sen Anurag Kashyap
Cinematography	Yogesh Jani
Edited by	Pravin Angre
Music by	Abhishek Ray
Production company	Faizee Production
Distributed by	Reliance Entertainment
Release date	13 May 2011 (2011-05-13)
Running time	128 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Plot

The film opens with gangster Bunty Bhaiya being arrested in Ghaziabad. In Delhi, Mohit Kumar is about to join the crime branch as a sub-inspector under senior inspector Hanumant Singh. There he meets Singh’s team, which is taking bribes from a builder and their commission from the land mafia lord, who is threatening the builder’s life.

Meanwhile, Hanumant Singh visits land mafia lord Choudhary as a landowner from Rajasthan and kills Chaudhary and his gang. Two of the remaining gang members escape and hide in a house. Reporter Varsha Mathur from the Aaj Tak news channel to cover the incident. Hanumant takes their media camera and, using his wit, gets the goons to open the door and shoots them. Later, he tells the media that both were wanted, terrorists. On the other side of the city, a person comes and threatens Hanumant’s wife of killing Hanumant and his whole family if he doesn’t stop doing his mischievous activities. At one point gunshots are fired on his house, and Hanumant tells his wife to leave India as soon as she gets her passport.

Bunty Bhaiya has been transferred to Delhi jail, where he is treated as a high-profile personality by the jailer. In jail, Bunty befriends two terrorists of Lashkar-e-Haq. Hanumant takes Mohit to Rajmani’s (politician) birthday. There Rajmani tells him to encounter Ali tonight at his birthday party.

Before encountering Ali, he tells Hanumant of the drug deal going to take place, which Hanumant sabotages and takes money and drugs with him. In the drug deal encounter, Mohit saves Hanumant's life in the nick of time. Later, Hanumant sends his wife and son to New Zealand for their own safety. In the meantime, three journalists are kidnapped by a terrorist who asks for the release of their mates and Bunty Bhaiya from Tihar jail.

When the government releases the three, Hanumant kills the two terrorists and takes Bunty into his safe house. It was later revealed that Hanumant was actually behind the kidnapping. Meanwhile, Mohit tips Hanumant about their colleague Shamsher Rana trying to kill him on instructions of Rajmani. Alert, Hanumant, in turn, kills Shamsher, faking it as a suicide case. Then Hanumant demands 15 crore from Rajmani for his release; else he will post the video of Bunty's confessions to the media.

Hanumant is shot down, where Mohit shows his presence of mind and admits him to the hospital. In the hospital, Hanumant realizes that Mohit was all along working for Rajamani. Even though Mohit is planning to eliminate Hanumant, he agrees to share his ransom money for Mohit to save his life during the drug deal encounter, which is a is a genuine attempt, unlike the other attempts made to gain his confidence. Then both of them chalk out a plan to make money from Rajmani.

After increasing the deal from 15 to 25 crore by sending a video recording of Bunty with Mohit in the video (which he wasn't aware of), Rajmani agreed on the deal and gave Mohit the money. Mohit shows up at the place as directed by Hanumant and drives off to meet him. In the end, Hanumant and Mohit divide their share of the money and part ways, not knowing there is a transponder in the case. Hanumant had some children call Rajmani Bunty's location, and they rush off to the location. Upon entering Rajmani's car, Bunty was shot dead by Rajmani, and they continued to the parliament. Not realising the reporters are watching, Rajmani is captured by the police in a roadblock when they saw Bunty's dead body in the car.

Mohit is killed by Rajmani's people in a car chase, in which he kills them all too. Hanumant goes to send the money to his family through Kamlesh (Veerendra Saxena), who does money transfers for him, but is shockingly shot twice by Kamlesh. Kamlesh tells him that he also has a family to feed and that he has never seen such a big amount in his whole life, and that has made him disloyal. Kamlesh dials a number; it is shown that Mohit's cellphone is ringing unattended beside his corpse, implying Mohit arranged the plot, and Kamlesh walks away.

Hanumanth dies listening to old Hindi songs playing on the TV.

Cast

• Nana Patekar as Hanumant Singh
• Zakir Hussain as Rajmani Yadav
• Rimi Sen as Varsha Mathur
• Mohit Ahlawat as Mohit Kumar
• Anurag Kashyap as Bunty Bhaiya
• Sitaram Panchal as Pandit
• Murali Sharma as Vijay Jindal
• Vishwajeet Pradhan as Ali
• Khan Jahangir Khan as Shamsher
• Ashok Pandey as Inspector Shukla
• Kishori Shahane as Mrs. Hanumant Singh
• Shrivallabh Vyas as Mohit's Father
• Gargi Patel as Varsha's Mother
• Hrishita Bhatt as Special appearance
• Kamal Malik as Rajmani's side kick
• Veerendra Saxena as Kamlesh (Money Launderer)
• Rajiv Gupta as Rajbir (Police officer)
• Tigmanshu Dhulia (Cameo) as pedestrian near India Gate listening to music in the radio

Soundtrack

This movie feature only one track "Kaisi Talab Hai" sung by Kunal Ganjawala composed by Abhishek Ray music on T-Series.

Critical reception

Nikhat Kazmi of The Times of India gave the movie a 31⁄2 star rating saying "Watch the film for its topicality. Shagird holds up a hard-hitting mirror on India: corrupt to the core, India: permanently scarred by the unholy nexus between tainted politicians, ruthless gangsters and dishonest cops." Taran Adarsh called the movie a power packed and well made film but blamed the awareness and low hype for the movie giving it a 3/5 star rating.

Music

The music was composed by music director Abhishek Ray.

External links

• Shagird at IMDb