Shool

Shool
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Directed byEeshwar Nivas
Written byScreenplay:
Ram Gopal Varma
Dialogues:
Anurag Kashyap
Story byRam Gopal Varma
Eeshwar Nivas
Produced byRam Gopal Varma
Nitin Manmohan
StarringManoj Bajpayee
Sayaji Shinde
Raveena Tandon
CinematographyHari Nair
Edited byBhanodaya
Music byScore:
Sandeep Chowta
Soundtrack:
Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy
Production
company
Varma Corporation
Distributed byDream Merchants Enterprise
Release date
  • 5 November 1999 (1999-11-05)
Running time
135 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget5 crore[1]
Box office8.58 crore[1]

Shool (transl. The Spike) is a 1999 Indian Hindi-language action crime film directed by Eeshwar Nivas. Written and produced by Ram Gopal Varma, it portrays the politician-criminal nexus and the criminalization of politics in Bihar and its effect on the life of an honest police officer. It stars Manoj Bajpayee as Inspector Samar Pratap Singh and Sayaji Shinde as the criminal-politician Bachhu Yadav.[2]

The film won National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.[3] Shool was featured at the International Film Festival of India, and the Toronto International Film Festival. It went on to gather a cult following over the years.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b "Shool – Movie". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 27 October 2022. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  2. ^ Bella Jaisinghani (9 November 1999). "Violent drama". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 14 October 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
  3. ^ "47th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 January 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  4. ^ "Manoj Bajpayee: 'Shool' has become quite a game changer". Telangana Today. Indo-Asian News Service. 20 March 2021. Archived from the original on 11 June 2023. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  5. ^ Joshi, Namrata (4 September 2018). "'I suffer internally when people keep talking about Satya, Shool'". The Hindu. Retrieved 20 August 2024.