DEV Certificate: 15, 172 mins Contains strong violence Director: Govind Nihalani Starring Amitabh Bachchan, Amrish Puri, Kareena Kapoor, Om Puri, Fardeen Khan, Ehsaan Khan UK Release 11 June 2004

The story is the tale of these two men and their bond of friendship, which sees a change in tide because of the people and circumstances around them. Joint Commissioner of Police Dev Pratrap Singh (Amitabh Bachchan) is a proud, weathered police officer, and Special Commissioner Tejinder Khosla (Om Puri) is the balancing force between the political interests of Chief Minister Bhandarker (Amrish Puri) and Dev's commitment to the law.

Farhaan (Fardeen Khan) emerges as a wedge driving them apart.

Farhaan is an unemployed law graduate who is the childhood sweetheart of Aaliya (Kareena Kapoor), a charming romantic person who is the ray of light in Farhaan's life. But Aaliya and Farhaan soon get caught in extraordinary circumstances that transform their lives.

Farhaan's father, Ali Saheb's violent death leaves him emotionally orphaned, because he was a man who has brought Farhaan up with ideas of patriotism and non-violence, but now cynicism and hatred slowly starts taking roots in the young man's heart. The spark of violence unknowingly set off by Farhaan under the aegis of Latif (Ehsaan Khan), a cunning and ambitious politico, engulfs the whole city. And Dev finds himself pitted against all odds in maintaining the peace in a disturbed world where no one is willing to see reason, plunging all in a sea of violence.

Tej transgresses beyond the boundaries of Law in his passion to eliminate crime, because of which Dev is faced with the spectre of the tragic human cost and an ethical pressure to face. Dev and Tej are set on a path of dramatic collision, but ironically, Dev and Farhaan's fates get irreversibly linked ... two soldiers whose allegiances were to different causes, but the admiration for each other's courage and integrity brings them together. Dev is thus the bold tale of circumstances that arise when stakes rise beyond self interest... and when a fearless voice makes it it's business to be heard.