DCP Anant and his team get tasked with escorting an alleged terrorist to Mumbai. However, a rogue ex-police officer makes their task difficult as he tries to stop them from reaching their destination.
Acting
Amitabh's exhausted integrity vs. Ajay's ice-cold menace
Direction
Santoshi turns a simple drive into escalating paranoia
Writing
Every cop has blood on their hands — no heroes here
Director
Rajkumar Santoshi
Amitabh Bachchan
DCP Anant Kumar Shrivastav
Akshay Kumar
Senior Inspector Shekhar Verma
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Mahalaxshmi
Ajay Devgn
Yashwant Angre
Tusshar Kapoor
Sub-Inspector Ashwin Gupte
Atul Kulkarni
Dr. Iqbal Ansari
Sabyasachi Chakraborty
Minister Deodhar
Prakash Raj
Additional Commissioner of Police Shrikant Naidu
Kamlesh Sawant
Constable Sawant
Prasanna Ketkar
Constable Ghorpade
Jaya Prada
Jaya Srivastav
Ashwini Kalsekar
Sawant's Wife
Tanuja Samarth
Dr. Iqbal Ansari's mother
Yusuf Hussain
Police Commissioner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Maharashtra highway chase was filmed on actual NH3 with minimal CGI — those trucks are really trying to kill them.
Released during peak 'encounter cop' mythology era, Khakee deliberately dismantles the 'noble police' trope that films like Ardh Satya built — Santoshi said he wanted audiences to 'feel dirty rooting for anyone.'
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