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Khakee Review: Amitabh Bachchan as the Angry Old Man

Khakee Review: Amitabh Bachchan as the Angry Old Man
Khakee: Amitabh Bachchan as angry old man in the perfect masala vehicle · indianexpress.com

A movie critic wrote a long article about an old Indian movie called Khakee.

The main character is played by a very famous actor named Amitabh Bachchan, who is a police officer.

Many years ago, in a 1973 movie called Zanjeer, he played a young man who was very angry about unfairness in the world.

In Khakee, he is much older, so the article calls him an "angry old man."

The article explains that Khakee is a "masala" movie, which means it mixes many different things, like songs, action, romance, and big emotions, all together.

The film has a scary villain, a chase across a desert, and a promise the hero makes to a kind mother.

It also talks about serious problems, such as a Muslim family being treated unfairly and a man who is not given a proper burial.

The critic believes great movies can mix fun with serious ideas at the same time.

At the very end, the article wonders whether movies made in 2026 would still be brave enough to tell this kind of story.

Key facts

Film
Khakee
Release Year
2004
Director
Rajkumar Santoshi
Writer
Shridhar Raghavan
Lead Actor
Amitabh Bachchan as an ageing cop
Other Cast
Akshay Kumar, Aishwarya Rai, Tanuja, Ajay Devgn as villain Aangre
Genre
Masala film
Comparison Film
Zanjeer (1973), directed by Prakash Mehra

Quotes

Amitabh Bachchan

Legendary Bollywood actor and central figure in the film Khakee

“That is why Khakee begins with a Muslim family being branded as anti‑national; reaches its midpoint when a man condemned as a Pakistani agent reveals that he was only trying to do his job with integrity, until the state made even that impossible.”
indianexpress.com
“In 2004, however, an angry old man was born. Bachchan was no longer young, nor the towering star he had once been.”
indianexpress.com

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