Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgan, Akshay Kumar, Aishwarya Rai, Tusshar Kapoor, Atul Kulkarni with Prakash Raj, SabYasachi, Ashwini Kalsekar, Radhika Menon, D Santosh, Kamlesh Sawant, Prasanna Ketkar, Siva Natarajan
Special Appearances by: Tanuja, Jaya Pradha and Lara Dutta
Directed By: Rajkumar Santoshi
Produced By: Keshu Ramsey
Music: Ram Sampat
Lyrics: Sameer
Storyline: Khakee begins with DCP Anant Srivastav aka ’Professor’ (Amitabh Bachchan) being assigned the most difficult and challenging assignment of his lifetime. Professor, who never got the chance to prove his mettle as a great police officer all his life, has finally got that chance and he grabs it. The mission is to warden a formidable ISI agent and a terrorist Iqbal Ansari (Atul Kulkarni) to Mumbai from Chandangadh.
The previous attempt by the police team on the same mission failed as they were brutally blown to bits midway. Now, it is all on the Professor to get Ansari back to Mumbai. Along with him, on the mission is Sr. Inspector Shekhar Sachdev (Akshay Kumar), a clever, brave and corrupt cop who is reluctant to join the DCP on the mission but is forced into it by his seniors. There is also Sub Inspector Ashwin Gupte (Tusshar Kapoor) who is a dedicated, upright and an honest cop who has just graduated from the police training school.
They have an unseen enemy, who is very shrewd, who knows their next step well in advance and creates problems for them. There are people in the police department who do not want Ansari to get back to Mumbai. The DCP is a strong man who does not allow all these problems to come in his way of achieving his goal. The movie is full of surprises; there is an element of suspense all through the film which makes it quite hard for the audience to get up from their seats.
Performances: The actors, the director, the music composer seem to have put in their 100% in Khakee. The actors have acted out their respective characters with excellence. Performances worth being applauded are by Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgan and Akshay Kumar. Aishwarya Rai and Atul Kulkarni were good in their respective roles as well. Tushaar Kapoor has grown a bit as an actor. He is promising; though he has miles to go before he could achieve the status of a serious actor.
Ajay Devgan is brilliant as the bad guy. After Deewangi, this is his second film in a dark shade. Ajay Devgan, in the role of Yashwant Angre - an ex cop, refuses to take defeat or failure and is out to take revenge from the DCP who got him expelled from the police force in the past. Devgan, a shrewd villain has carried out the role of the bad guy effortlessly in Khakee. On one hand, Ajay played an honest cop in Prakash Jha’s Gangaajal and on the other hand he plays a guy against the system in Khakee. Ajay Devgan proves as an amazing actor once again.
Khakee is a movie full of good messages to the citizens of this country. Rajkumar Santoshi is known to pen hard-hitting stories that are close to reality. Indian movies usually portray the Indian police in a negative way. Rajkumar Santoshi has done otherwise and has managed to show how hard and diligently some of our cops work and how the corrupt, seat-hungry politicians and senior police officials try to come in the way of elimination of crime from the country. A flick with power-packed performances, slick direction and foot-tapping music - Khakee is a must-see entertainer of 2004.