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CLASS OF '83 | Review

 


In the early 1980s, Bombay was invaded by underworld Dons’ strangle-hold, which was becoming very hard to break. Dozens of young men rendered jobless as a result of the ongoing mill strike, were being lured into joining local gangs, and the nexus between powerful politicians and criminal gang leaders made it hard for the police to weed out the problem. With this backdrop, the film follows an ideological cop turned trainer who moulds five cadets into encounter specialists.

Netflix original presents Class of ‘83 which is adapted from a book written by the leading crime journalist Hussain Zaidi named The Class of 83. It is an Indian Hindi language action crime drama film produced by Red Chillies Entertainment and directed by Atul Sabharwal. It tells the story of a hero policeman stunted to a punishment posting as the Dean of The Police Academy.

This film stars Bobby Deol, Anup Soni, Joy Sengupta, Viswajeet Pradhan, Hans Dev Sharma, Hitesh Bhojraj, Sameer Paranjape, Ninad Mahajani, Prithvik Pratap and Bhupendra Jadawat.

Yanked off the field for doing his job with more integrity than those in power would like him to, upright officer Vijay Singh (Bobby Deol) lands a ‘punishment posting’ as the Dean of the Police Training Centre in Nashik. Convinced that the only way to restore order in a flawed system is to fix it from the inside, he handpicks a clutch of bold young officers and trains them to bend the law in service of the larger good.

Inspired from real accounts of the city’s first encounter specialists, the film depicts how the officers shrewdly planned and executed hits while staying within the system and following all necessary protocols. But then it quickly slips into a predictable rise and fall and a rise in narrative with egos and corruption breaking up the friends, and a last ditch shot at redemption triggered by their mentor.


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