IMDb plot summary: The Central Bureau of Investigation deputes two officers to investigate the disappearance of three medical students, which they believe to be an incident of 'honour killing' in a small, closed community.
Directed by Priyadarshan. Starring Ajay Devgn, Akshaye Khanna, and Bipasha Basu.
Aakrosh is an Indian crime drama about two outside police officers investigating the kidnapping of three young men in a town where everyone absolutely refuses to talk to the police. The two officers try to solve the mystery without bringing the corrupt local police down on the citizens. This one is a pretty slow burn at around two and a half hours of runtime, but in the final third it really all comes together. The tensions keep escalating, both on a large scale and for individual characters' stakes, and I really appreciate how the story wraps up. Crime dramas are often not a genre that appeals to me, but there's something about the slightly melodramatic tone of a lot of Bollywood films that makes it a more interesting narrative to me than the gritty realism American cinema leans into.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Aakrosh < Arthur Christmas
Aakrosh > The Fortune Cookie
Aakrosh > Quigley Down Under
Aakrosh > L.A. Confidential
Aakrosh < Free Guy
Aakrosh > Shame (1968)
Aakrosh < Near Dark
Aakrosh > Hollywood Homicide
Aakrosh < Last Holiday
Aakrosh > Chocolat
Aakrosh > The Tinder Swindler
Final spot: #2088 out of 3857, or 46%.
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