Mardaani

Mardaani

(2014)

Mardaani is a 2014 Bollywood crime drama film directed by Pradeep Sarkar and produced by Aditya Chopra.

Story: Shivani Shivaji Roy (Rani Mukherjee), a dedicated and brave police officer (Akhilesh Verma) with Mumbai Police, chases a Delhi-based kingpin, Karan Rastogi (Tahir Raj Bhasin), who runs an organized crime cartel involving child trafficking and drugs. Her aim is to hunt him down and rescue a young teen girl, Pyari (Priyanka Sharma). She takes the task more personally and goes beyond her legal rights and duties to achieve her aim as she's very close to the girl she wants to rescue. Karan, aware that Shivani is continually monitoring his cartel's activities, gets in touch with her on phone, suggesting her not to interrupt his business. Shivani is determined to catch him. Using intelligence inputs, she tracks down his associate in Mumbai, who leads her on to the Karan's close aide Wakeel (Anil George), in Delhi. In a gruesome and brutal incident, Karan dismembers one of Pyari's fingers and sends it to Shivani's house wrapped in box as a gift. He also gets Shivani's husband abused and thrashed.

Shivani travels to Delhi and sets up a trap involving decoy drug dealers from Nigeria, who pretend to offer very expensive rare South American cocaine to Karan and Wakeel. When the decoy drug dealers are negotiating the deal with Wakeel, Shivani with other police officers, barges in. While Karan manages to escape, Wakeel finds himself in a situation where he senses he would definitely get arrested. He figures that if he gets arrested, the police would interrogate him, leading to Karan's arrest. He, therefore, tries to destroy evidence by destroying his mobile phone's SIM card and then shoots himself.
Shivani's continued investigation and the information from her sources leads her to Karan's house, where Karan's mother sediates her. She is abducted and brought to a party organized by Karan. She meets Pyari at the party, where Pyari and other young girls are forced to work as prostitutes. Shivani single handedly confronts the situation and forces Karan to an enclosed space, also rescuing and taking those girls with her. She challenges Karan to fight her, where she hits him badly. Sensing that Karan might escape the law, given the corruption in policing and judicial system, she hands over Karan to the girls, who beat him to death. His other gang members are arrested and prosecuted.

Cast:
Rani Mukherjee as Shivani Shivaji Roy
Tahir Raj Bhasin as Walt aka Karan Rastogi
Jisshu Sengupta as Dr. Bikram Roy
Anant Vidhaat (Sharma) as Sunny Katyal
Priyanka Sharma as Pyari
Prashant Sutar as Mushtaq
Akhilesh Verma as Police
Vikrant Koul as Inspector Mathur
Mikhail Yawalkar as Balwinder Singh Sodhi
Avneet Kaur as Meera
Saanand Verma as Kapil
Aman Uppal as Mattoo
Mona Ambegaokar as Meenu Rastogi
Anil George as Wakeel

Release Date: 22 August 2014
Genre: Drama/Action
IMDb Rating: 7.8/10
Box Office: ₹ 46 Crore
Certificate: A
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