Ajay Kumar (Warsi) is the newly appointed, honest SSP of Lucknow police who tries to crack down on the Uttar Pradesh mafia. He establishes a Special Task Force consisting of a physics professor (Pankaj Tripathi) to counter the politically backed criminal Gajraj Singh (Sushant Singh). Loosely based on the real-life late 1990s organized crime wave in Uttar Pradesh.
Acting
Arshad Warsi finally gets to be serious and crushes it.
Direction
Kabeer Kaushik's debut has more restraint than most veterans.
Writing
Local police as the actual enemy? Uncomfortably honest.
Director
Kabeer Kaushik
Arshad Warsi
SSP Ajay Kumar
Sushant Singh
Gajraj Singh
Pankaj Kapur
Professor Bhole Shankar Tiwari
Mahima Chaudhry
Anamika Kant
Suhasini Mulay
Prabha Kumar
Rajendra Gupta
ADG (Law and Order) Kapoor
Naved Aslam
Inspector Joginder Singh Solanki
Ghanshyam Garg
Sub Inspector Baidyanath Mishra
Ujjwal Chopra
Inspector Sayyed
Rajendra Sethi
Satyapal Mehra
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kabeer Kaushik researched actual Lucknow police files and based several characters on real officers, which caused minor controversy during release.
Sehar bombed in 2005 but became a cult favorite among critics who compared it to Ardh Satya—a comparison that haunted Warsi with expectations he couldn't replicate.
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