Tu Chor Main Sipahi (''English:You the burglar, me the soldier'') is a 1996 Indian

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starring

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, Tabu and Pratibha Sinha. It was released on 10 May 1996 and was directed by

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. The screenplay was written by Robin Henry.

Plot

Raja (

) is a notorious criminal mainly robbing well to do people. Inspector Amar Verma (

) is a macho police officer tracking him and willing to do anything to catch him. The Mumbai police wants King to be arrested at any cost. Things become worse for Amar when King robs the commissioner's house. Commissioner Kushal Singh ( Anupam Kher) presses Amar to arrest King within four days or get ready to get transferred to Tandarikala, a remote location which is also called as the graveyard of the policemen, as no policeman came back alive after going there. Amar is almost successful in arresting King but on their way back, Amar becomes injured in an incident involved with local bandits and King takes advantage of this situation and ditches Amar in the middle of the road and himself goes to Tandarikala, posing as a fake inspector. When Raja aka King reaches Tandarikala, he learns that the village is ruled by a merciless ruler, Thakur Gajendra Singh (

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). Thakur keeps all old men alive but abducts young men to work for him. In Tandarikala, Raja is surprised to see Guddu, a village simpleton, who is a look alike of Amar. It is later revealed that Guddu is actually Inspector Amar who followed Raja to arrest him but after seeing the condition of the villagers by the hands of Thakur, he changes his mind and together with Raja, decides to eliminate the cruelty of thakur from the village. In the end, they succeed by killing the Thakur and his goons and in the ending scene, it is shown that Amar handcuffs Raja and they both share a laugh together.

Cast

as Inspector Amar Verma *

as Raja * Tabu as Kajal Singh * Pratibha Sinha as Rani *

as Thakur Gajendra Singh * Anupam Kher as Police Commissioner Kushal Singh *

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as ACP Verma, Amar's dad

Music

Music by Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen. Lyrics by Anand Bakshi. Tracks are listed below.

References

External links

* 1990s Hindi-language films 1996 films Films scored by Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen Indian action drama films Indian heist films 1990s action drama films 1990s heist films Films directed by Guddu Dhanoa {{1990s-Hindi-film-stub