Policegiri

Policegiri
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	K.S. Ravikumar
Produced by	T.P. Aggarwal Rahul Aggarwal
Written by	Farhad-Sajid (dialogues)
Story by	Hari
Starring	Sanjay Dutt Prakash Raj Prachi Desai
Music by	Himesh Reshammiya Meet Bros Anjjan
Cinematography	N. K. Ekambaram
Editing by	Samjith MHD
Distributed by	STAR Entertainment
Release date(s)	5 July 2013
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Box office	16.8 crore(US$2.7 million)

Policegiri is a 2013 Indian Hindi comedy cop film. The film produced by T. P. Aggarwal and Rahul Aggarwal marks the Bollywooddebut of popular Tamil director K.S. Ravikumar. The film features Sanjay Dutt, Prachi Desai and Prakash Raj in the lead roles. The theatrical trailer was released on 28 May 2013, and the film released on 5 July 2013.

The film is the official remake of the 2003 Tamil film Saamy, directed by Hari starring Vikram and Trisha Krishnan in the lead.

Plot

A cop named DCP Rudra is transferred to a new police station. As the city is riddled with crime and corruption, he decides to bring law and order back for which he has to go against Nagori Subramaniam the local mafia. He does not believe in the system of going by the book and instead fights fire with fire. Then he continues to confront with the villain and starts the cat and mouse chases between them and at lasts hero kills villain.

Production

The movie was rumoured to be called Thanedaar - Part 2, referring to a previous hit movie of Sanjay Dutt did during his younger days. However Dutt did not feel comfortable with the movie backing on the success of Thanedaar, considering the fact that the story was not written keeping in mind the original Thanedaar. 

Furthermore the directors and producers of the original Thanedaar were different. Subsequently Sanjay Dutt suggested to brainstorm for another name. He suggested Policegiri and the unit was happy to call this movie Policegiri. Policegiri was actually not a word in use but something Sanjay Dutt created.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack album was composed by Himesh Reshammiya and Meet Bros Anjjan. The music rights was bought by T-Series. Lyrics were penned by Shabbir Ahmed and Aslam Lashkariya.

Critical response

The film received extremely poor reviews from critics. VjMOVIEws noted that, "Except some funky dialogues,there is nothing to write home about. By all measures, the movie appeals only to the audience who have got used to the tonic prescribed by Kollywood.".

Review scores
Source	Rating
NDTV
IBN
The Indian Express
Rediff
Mumbai Mirror
Hindustan Times
GlamSham
bollywood3

Box office

Policegiri opened to average collections. Policegiri collected 0.99 crores in its opening day. Then it went on to collect more than 12.50 Crores in its opening week. Due to such bad business, Box Office India declared the film a 'Disaster'.