"Khakee" is one of the smartest — if not the smartest — cop dramas ever made in Hindi Cinema. A film so compact that it will leave you gasping for breath. A near perfect knit story of a team of police officials who put their life on the line to accomplish a dangerous mission only to find out that the very system which assigned them the job are against them completing it. A story of inherent corruption, deceit and lust for power with two underlying messages – All that’s Apparent is not True and Trust No One. Santoshi pitted Big B and Akshay Kumar against Ajay Devgn, pushed each one of them to their limits and extracted some brilliant performances. ‘Khakee’ deserved numerous laurels but it remains a mystery as to how such a stunning suspense thriller got lost in oblivion and never became a constituent of film conversations.
