Director Rohit Shetty, who started the police world with Mumbai Police through the films Singham, Simmba and Suryavanshi, has started his innings in the OTT space with the Indian Police Force. Rohit chose his tried and tested formula for his OTT debut and has come up with a cop series.
There is tremendous action element in his films. Be it comedy or thriller, action is Rohit’s signature style. Indian Police Force is also full of stylish action scenes and chase sequences, but watching the series it seems that Rohit is stuck in his own maze.
At the level of writing, Indian Police Force seems to be an old series. What disappoints the most is the story of the series, which does not offer anything new. This time Rohit has made Delhi Police the hero of his story.
The Indian Police Force, riding on the wings of expectations before its release, spoils the possibilities of a great series. The series begins with the serial bomb blasts in Delhi. These blasts are being investigated by the team of Joint CP Vikram Bakshi (Vivek Oberoi) of Delhi Police. DCP Kabir Malik (Siddharth Malhotra) is a flamboyant officer of Vikram’s team.
Gujarat ATS Chief Tara Shetty (Shilpa Shetty) has come to Delhi with her team to help in the investigation, who are searching for the people responsible for the serial blasts that took place in Ahmedabad before Delhi. Tara had intelligence that there could be bomb blasts in Delhi on 26 January, but terrorists spread terror in Delhi after that date.
Terrorists associated with the Indian Mujahideen (IM) organization are planning to carry out serial blasts in big cities of the country. The mastermind behind it is Jarar (Mayank Tandon), who takes instructions from Rafiq (Rituraj Singh), an Indian master present in Iran.
After this, serial blasts take place in Jaipur also. After the failure of the operation in Delhi, Kabir is removed from the army and put to clerical work, but Kabir, who treats Vikram as his elder brother, secretly investigates the Jaipur blasts and looks for patterns. Is. Later he realizes that this is also Jarar’s. There is work.
Following the clues of Delhi serial blasts, the police reached the terrorists and surrounded them in a house in Firozha Nagar, but after heavy firing, Jarar and his younger brother Sikku escaped. Vikram was martyred in this fierce encounter.
Impressed by Kabir’s investigation, Police Commissioner Jaideep Bansal (Mukesh Rishi) takes Kabir back into the force. Meanwhile, Delhi Police received information that Sikku had been seen in Goa. Kabir is sure that Jarar will also be in Goa. After this, teams of Delhi and Gujarat Police reach Goa. Here the team succeeds in preventing a major explosion. Sikku is killed, but Jarar escapes again. The further story revolves around a plan to lay a trap to capture Jarar, who is preparing to escape to Iran via Dhaka.
Famous writer S. Hussain Zaidi has been credited for research into the Indian Police Force series. Zaidi has been writing books on the underworld and terrorist incidents in Mumbai. Based on Zaidi’s research, Rohit along with his writing team (Sandeep Saket, Anusha Nandkumar, Ayush Trivedi, Vidhi Ghodgaonkar, Sanchit Bedre) has written the story, screenplay and dialogues.
The story of the Indian police force travels to Delhi, Azamgarh (UP), Kanpur (UP), Darbhanga (Bihar), Goa, Sundarbans (West Bengal) and Dhaka in search of terrorists and their connections. The series primarily proceeds on two tracks. First, the search for terrorist Jarar by the teams of Delhi and Gujarat Police and second, Jarar’s personal life and love story, which has been shown in great detail.
Both of these tracks are full of ‘clichés’. The reasons behind Jarrar becoming a terrorist are his betrayal by a religious guru in his childhood, his jihad for the community, his relations with external forces. Also, action will be taken through DCP Kabir Malik to punish those who promote terrorism in the name of the community. Neither the plot, nor the dialogues, nothing seems new.
Angered by Vikram’s martyrdom in the encounter in Delhi’s Ferozenagar, when Kabir beats the captured terrorist Shadab, he angrily says that we are fighting for our community. On this Kabir says that the entire community has to suffer the consequences of people like him. There is also a sequence in the climax, when Jarar curses Kabir for not supporting the community, then Kabir explains to him in his own way why religion fails.
In the Goa sequence, the scene of terrorist Sikku escaping from the clutches of the police seems very light, whereas it is an important sequence. The chase scene between Kabir and Jarar in the busy market and streets of Dhaka Operation does not create thrills.
All the episodes of the series are directed by Rohit and Sushant Prakash. While bringing all the major characters on screen, the directors have taken full care of their swag. Seeing Mukesh Rishi as Commissioner in the story of Indian Police Force, one remembers the scene of Sarfarosh, when Mukesh playing the character of Inspector Salim Ahmed complains to Aamir Khan that he is being removed from the case because of his religion. However, here Kabir has no such complaints nor does anyone have even the slightest doubt on his patriotism.