Drohkaal

Drohkaal द्रोहकाल
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Directed by	Govind Nihalani
Written by	Govind Purushottam Deshpande Govind Nihalani Anjum Rajabali Atul Tiwari
Starring	Om Puri Naseeruddin Shah Ashish Vidyarthi
Music by	Vanraj Bhatia Anjan Biswas Sunil Kaushik Taufiq Qureshi
Cinematography	Govind Nihalani, Malay Roy
Edited by	Dilip Panda
Production company	Udbhav Productions
Release date	31 August 1994
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Drohkaal (English: Times of Treason) is a 1994 Indian crime drama film directed and produced by Govind Nihalani which deals with India's fight against terrorism. The film examines the mental and psychological trauma that honest police officers go through in their fight against a group of ruthless terrorists. It was remade in Tamil as Kuruthipunal, produced by Kamal Haasan and directed by P. C. Sreeram, which was India's official entry for the 68th Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film category.

Indian cities are being terrorized by a group of people who want the government to give in to their demands and are willing to go to any extent for that purpose. Honest, experienced and diligent cops Abhay Singh (Om Puri) and Abbas Lodhi (Naseeruddin Shah) are part of the anti terrorism task force set up by the government to eliminate the menace.

Abbas Lodhi comes up with the idea of "Operation Dhanush", which involves sending two undercover cops, Anand (Manoj Bajpai) and Shiv (Milind Gunaji) among the terrorist group, so that they shall be part of them and learn all about them, and can call him through radio and transmit all the information under the code name Dhanush. Only Abbas and Abhay know about this operation.

Anand, one of the undercover cops, is exposed by the terrorists a few years later. However, he dies by consuming cyanide and before they can get any information from him. Now Shiv is left alone in the gang. He soon wins the trust and respect of everyone in the gang, including the mastermind Commander Bhadra (Ashish Vidyarthi) himself.

Bhadra is captured and tortured by the police. But try as they may, he does not reveal anything to Abbas or Abhay and justifies their actions. When Bhadra is in jail, the gang appoints one of their sharp shooters to kill a minister as he is approaching the city in his car, which he does successfully. This man is apprehended and interrogated by Abhay. He agrees to help the police for the safety of his family, but soon is poisoned in jail itself by a corrupt cop, Inspector Tiwari (Shrivallabh Vyas).