Sehar: A Must Watch

There are numerous of movies in Bollywood on the same concept and theory. However movie closely resembles with Ab Tak Chhappan, But still this movie has its own presence even though there are numerous of movies based on the same theme. As a first film of the director Kabeer Kaushik, he has made his mark in the bollywood. He used an un-explored territory, the northern India, which is considered to be home for the most corrupted people in India. In UP there is huge nexus of Politicians and criminals actively operating? As shown in the movie, things are organized in real life too.


Sehar, is so close to reality, that the Officers of STF that have been instrumental in the rescue of the Mumbai Stock Broker's son, have been very closely involved in this movie by providing the key inputs for it. The film brings out the issues that eclipse the cultural heritage of Lucknow and was actually shot for 62 days in Lucknow to bring in the real essence of the place. But this will surely go against it, especially as far as Mumbai and the other metro cities are concerned.


Sehar describes the journey of a newly-appointed, S.S.P. of Lucknow, Ajay Kumar (Arshad Warsi), who is determined in bringing together a group of committed police officers under the support of the Special Task Force. This Force has a single agenda, succeeds in challenging the might of organized crime in Uttar Pradesh. And in the process, what unfolds is the ever-changing dynamics of Uttar Pradesh's siyaasat: Railway contracts, ISI involvement, politician-mafia-police-builder nexus, rigid red-tapeism and criminalization of University students.


Sehar, also gave a chance to Arshad, to come out of the shell which was created by the movies like Munna Bhai MBBS, Hulchal etc. The performance given by Arshad Warsi, Pankaj Kapoor and Sushant Singh is excellent. The movie runs on the shoulder of these three people. Like any other gangaster movie, there is not much for Mahima to do, but she makes her presence felt.

At the end, there is nothing new in the movie, but what attracts me is resemblance to reality, picturisation, narrating style and out of box territory (Mumbai is not only the place for gangster, there are UP and Bihar too). May be this movie gives an idea to Ram Gopal Verma (King of Gangester Movies in Bollywood) to get out of Mumbai for his next movie.