Shotru

Shotru
Theatrical Poster of Shotru
Directed by	Raj Chakraborty
Written by	Padmanabha Dasgupta Abhimanyu Mukherjee Hari
Produced by	Ashok Dhanuka
Starring	Jeet Nusrat Jahan Supriyo Dutta Biswajit Chakraborty Dipankar De Biplab Chatterjee Saayoni Ghosh
Cinematography	P. Selvakumar
Edited by	Rabi Ranjan Maitra
Music by	Indraadip Dasgupta[1]
Production company	Eskay Movies
Distributed by	Eskay Movies
Release date	3 June 2011
Running time	166 minutes
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Shotru (Bengali: শত্রু ; English: Enemy) is a 2011 Indian Bengali-language action thriller film directed by Raj Chakraborty.^[2] The film was produced by Ashok Dhanuka under the banner of Eskay Movies. It stars Jeet, Supriyo Dutta and Nusrat Jahan in lead roles,^[3][4] while Kharaj Mukherjee, Dipankar De, Biswajit Chakraborty, Saayoni Ghosh, Raja Dutta and Biplab Chatterjee played other pivotal roles. It marks the debut of Nusrat Jahan.^[5] The soundtrack and background score was composed by Indraadip Dasgupta, with screenplay and dialogues written by Padmanabha Dasgupta and Abhimanyu Mukherjee. It is a remake of 2010 Tamil movie Singam.^[6]

Clashing with Dev and Koel Mallick starrer Paglu (2011), it was an all time blockbuster at the box office, with a successful run of over 210 days in theatres. It received positive reviews from crtics. Critics appreciated the social messages and portrayals with Jeet and Dutta's performance and stylized action sequences which plays a very pivotal role in this film.

Dibakar Singha is a police sub-inspector from Hridaypur, working in the city of Howrah. Arjun Sarkar uses a job as a real estate agent to cover for crimes, including kidnapping and extortion, getting police. Dibakar learns of his crimes and decides to try and kill him.

Dibakar falls in love with Puja, a woman who is visiting her grandfather on vacation. She convinces Dibakar to fight the corruption in the police department and Arjun.

Dibakar is promoted to the head of an anti-kidnapping squad by the Home Minister. He conducts raids on Arjun's hideout and imprisons Arjun's brother Karna, who is innocent. To free his brother, Arjun plans to kidnap Puja's younger sister, Diya, but Dibakar foils the attempt by catching two of the kidnappers. One of the kidnappers confesses that they were hired by Arjun, providing Dibakar with the necessary evidence to prove Arjun's involvement in 62 kidnappings. Dibakar announces that two kidnappers were apprehended and the money was recovered and will be used as a government asset unless someone lays claim to it.

Almost exposed for his involvement, Arjun plans to lure Dibakar to his hideout to kill him. Dibakar, however, learns of Arjun's plan to have him killed and decides to go meet Arjun in disguise. There he kills Ratan, a close friend of Arjun. Then, Dibakar tells Arjun that Ratan has agreed to be a state witness against him. To prevent this from happening, Arjun sends someone to kill Ratan in the hospital. When Karna, the assassin, arrives at the hospital, he is killed by Dibakar while on the phone with Arjun. Angered by this, tries to kill Puja, who escapes with a bullet in her arm.

Dibakar exposes his superior, the DSP, as Arjun's mole in the police department. Having been exposed, the DSP is then forced into aiding Dibakar in exposing Arjun.

Arjun kidnaps the daughter of the Assam Home Minister and takes her to Jharkhand. Dibakar pursues him and kills Arjun.

At a ceremony to honour Dibakar for his actions, Dibakar announces that he will return to his village and that he has finished what he set out to do in the city. Puja is shown accompanying him on this journey.

In June 2018, it was revealed that Raj Chakraborty is going to collaborate with Jeet for Superstar Jeet 50 after Abhimaan (2016). Rumours reported it to be the sequel of Shotru, in which Subhashree Ganguly was being approached as Puja, replacing Nusrat Jahan as she rejected the role. Then in an interview, Chakraborty revealed that there were no plans of making Shotru 2^[7] without a true story that would reflect the core plot, where the previous film was itself based on true events. But he also told that his collaboration with Jeet would be itself a standalone project. Later, the film was announced to be Jeet's 50th film under the title Shesh Theke Shuru (2019) and released on the occasion of Eid 2019.

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• Shotru at IMDb