AAN Certificate: 12A 149 mins Contains moderate violence Director: Madhur Bhandarkar Starring: Akshay Kumar, Shatrughan Sinha, Sunil Shetty, Irfan Khan, Jackie Shroff, Paresh Rawal UK Release 4 June 2004

Mumbai's Crime-busting branch is at its lowest ebb. Sub. Insp. Kadam Naik (Sunil Shetty) is the encounter specialist who guns down criminals so that the law cannot bail them out. Const. Khalid Ansari (Paresh Rawal) usually keeps things in a lighter vein in the branch. Everybody loves to have him around. Sr. Insp. Vikram Singh (Shatrughan Sinha) believes that things won’t change in present corrupt system.

Manik Rao – the Home Minister calls the shots with the law firmly under his control. Underworld don Yusuf Pathan (Irfan Khan) has his full support and so does Gautam Walia (Jackie Shroff), a rich builder and business magnate. The three of them are making huge money by helping each other. With the three of them ruling the roost, Crime Branch is reduced to a virtually impotent force.

This changes when a young IPS Officer, DCP Hari Om Patnaik (Akshay Kumar) is transferred there from Poona. Right from day one the officers find themselves at loggerheads with their new boss who is determined to changed things. He even promises them that the day he gets an opportunity, he will take the system head on.

The opportunity comes when Manik Rao has businessman Ajit Pradhan eliminated. As destiny would have it the Pradhan murder case comes to crime branch. Hari and his force set off on a trial to expose the people behind the high profile murder. Despite their ideological differences, Vikram Singh, Appa Kadam Naik and DCP Hari Om Patnaik combine into a magnum force, expose the criminals and free the city from the clutches of the underworld.