Delayed films are usually horrible as they lose their touch over the time. When I saw the cover of this film, I expected this film to be another Sunil Shetty done to death movie with no story and lots of over acting and boy was I surprised. This was one unexpected film that turned out to be a good film even for bein a long delayed film. Officer started around late 1994 and released in 2001 and yes that is a huge delay. The best part is that this movie isn't a typical action film with lots of nonsense comedy, it is a good thriller film with suspense. However, it is still nowhere close to being the perfect Indian thriller film as it does contain its share of flaws.
Officer has a good story for being an action thriller, sadly this isn't as good as other thrillers from the time of its release. Officer tells the story of Special Forces Officer Sagar Chauhan(Sunil Shetty). His is an honest and diligent officer. He has never failed to save people who are in trouble or are the victims of a conspiracy. The introduction is awesome showing a smart and awesome Sunil Shetty protecting a judge who is threatened to be killed by some random villains. These villains attack but fail as Sagar is not the one who fails to protect when he takes a case on his hands. The intro scene is superb and the court scene is awesme too. He takes a case of some rich dude Pratap Rai(Danny)'s private case. After much reluctance, he is ready to take the case. He has to watch over and make sure Pratap's wife Mrs. Meenal Rai(Raveena Tandon) doesn't harm herself as she has a mental problem of attemeptiing to suicide. After some time, both become friends but Meenal falls for Sagar. Sagar doesn't allow this and because he says no to Meenal when she asks her do you love me, she goes to this random construction building and jumps off. Sagar couldn't save her as he is afraid of heights and has this small disease after an accident in his childhood. A devasted and upset Sagar is sent for sick leave out of the city and it is after this part the story becomes thrilling. He meets a look alike of Meenal called Pari(Raveena Tandon) and after some moments she is forced to reveal that she was the Meenal Sagar had met. Jabbar(Shaabaz Khan) and Mangal(the villain who Sunil arrests at the very beginning) were behind this conspiracy of changing Pari's hairstyle and making her Mrs. Pratap Rai for some time. When they find out she falls in love with him, she is instructed to continue to act mad and go towards the same construction building. Over here, she is chased by Jabbar and has goons, she has a narrow escape. She finds out that the girl who fell from the building and died was another person and she was a pawn in this conspiracy. However, the main question now is why would someone do this? Then Jabbar and all his men including Gopal(a mole in the agency) get killed by some dude in a mask. Who is the dude in the mask? Why is murdering the villains? Is there another villain in this story? To find out, watch is good thriller from 2001.
Direction by Naem Shah is good for the most part. The movie is well handled even if it drags in the romantic portions. However, the forced comedy by Lobo(Sagar's handler and guardian) is funny but forced and doesn't fit well with the tempo of the film. The direction is good but it is patchy and at the last point the climax isn't hard hitting. However, the reveal of the whole scheme and the real villain identifyed is well shown and the whole plot and narration is superb. The climax is mainly good for its superb action. However, the editing could've been better as several scenes tend to drag and if the editing was better there wouldn't have even been any drag issues.
Sunil Shetty is awesome and he doesn't ham like in his Balwaan days in 1992-1994 till Gopi Kishan which was one of his best movies with hardly any hamming. Before that his films were good but he hammed quite a lot and irritated. However, his hair style keeps on changing from the 1994 Sunil Shetty to the 1995-1997 Sunil Shetty to the most recent 2000 Sunil Shetty. Raveena Tandon is cute as the innocent heroine but she hams as Pari in parts. Danny is superb(watch the ending, he isn't any ordinary character, he more than just Pratap Rai). Shabaaz Khan is ordinary and typical and the same goes for the other set of villains. Sadashiv Amrapukar as Lobo is funny and Tej Sapru as Pradhan is average.
Music is good, the best song is Pholon Ke Rang Se Dariya Ko and the Kaisa Sama song is also good. The other songs are fillers and time consumers.
Action is good and is actually limited, there isn't any over the top nonsense action like nowadays.
On the whole, Officer is a good film with some drag which makes fails it from becoming a brillian thriller.
Officer has a good story for being an action thriller, sadly this isn't as good as other thrillers from the time of its release. Officer tells the story of Special Forces Officer Sagar Chauhan(Sunil Shetty). His is an honest and diligent officer. He has never failed to save people who are in trouble or are the victims of a conspiracy. The introduction is awesome showing a smart and awesome Sunil Shetty protecting a judge who is threatened to be killed by some random villains. These villains attack but fail as Sagar is not the one who fails to protect when he takes a case on his hands. The intro scene is superb and the court scene is awesme too. He takes a case of some rich dude Pratap Rai(Danny)'s private case. After much reluctance, he is ready to take the case. He has to watch over and make sure Pratap's wife Mrs. Meenal Rai(Raveena Tandon) doesn't harm herself as she has a mental problem of attemeptiing to suicide. After some time, both become friends but Meenal falls for Sagar. Sagar doesn't allow this and because he says no to Meenal when she asks her do you love me, she goes to this random construction building and jumps off. Sagar couldn't save her as he is afraid of heights and has this small disease after an accident in his childhood. A devasted and upset Sagar is sent for sick leave out of the city and it is after this part the story becomes thrilling. He meets a look alike of Meenal called Pari(Raveena Tandon) and after some moments she is forced to reveal that she was the Meenal Sagar had met. Jabbar(Shaabaz Khan) and Mangal(the villain who Sunil arrests at the very beginning) were behind this conspiracy of changing Pari's hairstyle and making her Mrs. Pratap Rai for some time. When they find out she falls in love with him, she is instructed to continue to act mad and go towards the same construction building. Over here, she is chased by Jabbar and has goons, she has a narrow escape. She finds out that the girl who fell from the building and died was another person and she was a pawn in this conspiracy. However, the main question now is why would someone do this? Then Jabbar and all his men including Gopal(a mole in the agency) get killed by some dude in a mask. Who is the dude in the mask? Why is murdering the villains? Is there another villain in this story? To find out, watch is good thriller from 2001.
Direction by Naem Shah is good for the most part. The movie is well handled even if it drags in the romantic portions. However, the forced comedy by Lobo(Sagar's handler and guardian) is funny but forced and doesn't fit well with the tempo of the film. The direction is good but it is patchy and at the last point the climax isn't hard hitting. However, the reveal of the whole scheme and the real villain identifyed is well shown and the whole plot and narration is superb. The climax is mainly good for its superb action. However, the editing could've been better as several scenes tend to drag and if the editing was better there wouldn't have even been any drag issues.
Sunil Shetty is awesome and he doesn't ham like in his Balwaan days in 1992-1994 till Gopi Kishan which was one of his best movies with hardly any hamming. Before that his films were good but he hammed quite a lot and irritated. However, his hair style keeps on changing from the 1994 Sunil Shetty to the 1995-1997 Sunil Shetty to the most recent 2000 Sunil Shetty. Raveena Tandon is cute as the innocent heroine but she hams as Pari in parts. Danny is superb(watch the ending, he isn't any ordinary character, he more than just Pratap Rai). Shabaaz Khan is ordinary and typical and the same goes for the other set of villains. Sadashiv Amrapukar as Lobo is funny and Tej Sapru as Pradhan is average.
Music is good, the best song is Pholon Ke Rang Se Dariya Ko and the Kaisa Sama song is also good. The other songs are fillers and time consumers.
Action is good and is actually limited, there isn't any over the top nonsense action like nowadays.
On the whole, Officer is a good film with some drag which makes fails it from becoming a brillian thriller.