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Aks

India 2001
produced by
AB Corp
directed by Rakesh Omprakash Mehra
starring Amitabh Bachchan, Manoj Bajpai, Raveena Tandon, Nandita Das, K.K.Raina, Tanvi Azmi, Vineeth Kumar, Singh Abhimanyu Shekhar, Mohan Agashe, Amol Palekar, Gargi Vegi Raju, Surte Aditya, Salim Ghouse

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The defence minister (Amol Palekar) promises to hand a floppy containing facts of a conspiracy to kill off the prime minister (Mohan Agashe) over to his chief of security Manu Verma (Amitabh Bachchan), but when doing so is killed by Manu - who soon turns out to be not Manu after all but assassin Raghavan (Manoj Bajpai) wearing a facial mask, & he even leaves his calling card (the joker's mask on a keychain) at the scene of the crime. When a short time later the same keychain is found at another crimescene, Pradhvan, Manu's friend from homicide, contacts Manu & together they take up investigations, that soon lead to the arrest of Raghavan's brother Narang (Vineeth Kumar) & girlfriend, nightclubdancer Nita (Raveena Tandon), but also to Raghavan abducting Pradhvan from almost under Manu's nose & shooting him. After questioning Narang & Neeta though, Manu & his new partner, collegeboy Arjun (Singh Abhimanyu Shekhar) manage to capture Raghavan - even though it costs them half a squad of cops, who Raghavan kills using guerilla-tactics. Raghavan is tried, convicted & - as he is unwilling to give up the names of the heads of the conspiracy - sentenced to death by hanging. When lead to the gallows though, he makes an escape attempt but is shot dead by Manu.

This is not the end though, as soon Manu is possessed by the spirit of Raghavan, first killing Narang in his prison cell for betraying his whereabouts, then starting (or continuing, depending from the point of view) with Neeta - even though Manu is married with child - & taking revenge on the judge who convicted Raghavan. Only Arjun grows suspicious of Manu after a time, & his wife Surpiya (Nandita Das) finds out the truth when, after a romantic wedding anniversary he all of a sudden gets violent towards her. Not willing to give up her husband though, she takes him - in one of the periods when he is himself - to a guru (Salim Ghouse), who tells him to go to the origins of his possessions (the nightclub where Neeta is dancing), & that he only can get rid of Raghavan during a total eclipse of the sun.

At the nightclub though, he is confronted, at the same time by his wife, Neeta, & Arjun, who wants to make an arrest, which ends in Neeta getting shot, Arjun thrown out of a window, & Suryia getting kidnapped by a possessed Manu.

At the seaside, everything culminates in a final showdown as Manu wants to sacrifice his daughter Gita (Gargi Vegi Raju), but is stopped at the last moment by his wife talking reason into him & the occurence of a total eclipse of the sun. Raghavan however is reluctant to let go of Manu yet, if it wasn't for Arjun, who enters the scene with Raghavan's disabled brother Mahadevan (K.K.Raina), the only person Raghavan ever really cared for, & threatens to kill him (having since figured out the possession business himself). In the chaos that ensues, Raghavan leaves Manu's body to possess his brother's, but is now promptly shot by Manu.

The floppy is found, the prime minister saved, the real culprit apprehended & Arjun drops his case against Manu. The world is rid of Raghavan forever ... but is it ?

 

An interesting but conventional espionage-psychothriller story that gets a new spin when it, after about half the story, turns into a possession-horror-film, which totally reshuffles the cards without destroying the set-up it has built, thus very ably keeping up the excitement until the end. & Amitabh obviously relishes in playing both the good & the (camp) bad guy, which keeps the whole movie very entertaining.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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