''Class of '83'' is a 2020 Indian

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produced by

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and directed by Atul Sabharwal for

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. The film is based on the book "The Class of 83" and tells the story of a hero policeman shunted to a punishment posting as the dean of the police academy. ''Class of '83'' is

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Synopsis

Class of 83, which is based on a book authored by leading crime journalist Hussain Zaidi, is set in Bombay in the 1980s when the underworld’s stranglehold on the city was becoming 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 as the backdrop, the film follows an ideological cop-turned-trainer who moulds five cadets into encounter specialists. 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-rise narrative with egos and corruption breaking up the friends, and a last-ditch shot at redemption triggered by their mentor.

Cast

Bobby Deol Vijay Singh Deol (born 27 January 1967) popularly known as Bobby Deol, is an Indian actor who works in Hindi cinema and web series. A member of the List of Hindi film families#Deol family, Deol family, he is the younger son of veteran actor Dhar ...

as Vijay Singh * Bhupendra Jadawat as Pramod Shukla * Geetika Tyagi as Sudha Singh, the wife of Vijay Singh. *

Anup Soni Anup Soni (born 30 January 1975) is an Indian actor and anchor. He is an alumnus of the National School of Drama. Soni began his career with roles in television serials such as '' Sea Hawks'' and '' Saaya''. He then took a break from television ...

as Manohar Patkar *

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as DGP Raghav Desai *

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as Mangesh Dixit * Hans Dev Sharma as YP Mathur * Hitesh Bhojraj as Vishnu Varde * Sameer Paranjape as Aslam Khan * Ninad Mahajani as Laxman Jadhav * Prithvik Pratap as Janardan Surve * Abhishek Bhalerao as Bombay Police with Vishnu Varde

Production

The filming began in the first week of May 2019.

Release

''Class of '83'' was streamed on OTT Platform

from 21 August 2020.

References

External links

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