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Synopsis
DCP Anant Shrivastav (Amitabh Bachchan) gets an important assignment. The professor's police career has been more failures than success. Now he wants to prove himself.
The mission he is assigned to work on is a dangerous. A suspected ISI terrorist Iqbal Ansari (Atul Kulkarni) has already made an unsuccessful escape bid while he was shifted from Chandanghad to Mumbai. The first escort team of police officers failed in their jobs.
Along with the Professor on this mission is Sr. Inspector Shekhar Sachdev (Akshay Kumar), who is an unscrupulous man who follows his own morality. Although he did not want to be a part of this mission, he was forced into it by his superiors.
And there is also Sub-Inspector Ashwin Gupte (Tusshar Kapoor), who has recently graduated from the Police training school and has never been on a serious mission before.
The team comprising of the Professor, Inspector Sachdev and Sub Insp. Ashwin, along with two constables, is given the charge of escorting the dreaded terrorist and a crucial witness in the case against him, from Chandanghad to Mumbai. And the trio set out on their journey, not aware of the danger that lies ahead.
Trivia
|  | Akshaye Khanna was initially approached to play Sub Inspector Ashwin Gupte.
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| | Aishwarya Rai injured her leg in a jeep accident during the films shoot.
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| | Jayapradha had a full-fledged role, but because of family commitments she could not devote much time to the film, so her role was trimmed down to a guest appearance.
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| | Rajkumar Santoshi had wanted Aishwarya Rai to be in his film since he dropped her out of Lajja (2001).
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| | Khakee is the first movie of Rajkumar Santoshi with Amitabh Bachchan. Later on they did the movie Family: Ties of Blood together.
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| | Rajkumar Santoshi wanted to make a film about cops with Amitabh Bachchan ever since he was involved as an assistant in 'Ardh Satya' (1983).
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| | The director's initial plan was to hire all the main actors with names starting with alphabet A. Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgan, Akshay Kumar, Aishwarya Rai, Atul Kulkarni, Amrish Puri and Akshaye Khanna. However, Akshaye Khanna dropped out and was replaced by Tushhar Kapoor on short notice (hence the odd one out).
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| | Rajkumar Santoshi narrated the story of the movie to Amar Singh (politician), who had arranged the meeting with Amitabh Bachchan and the film started with his blessings. Also, during the film's production he went out of his way to obtain permission to shoot on the train. That's the reason Amar Singh is thanked in the opening credits.
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| | Khakee was nominated in 18 categories for various awards including Filmfare Awards, but did not win a single award.
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| | Akshay Kumar has been part of all the movies produced by Keshu Ramsay, the producer of Khakee excluding 'Guest House'.
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| | Rajkumar Santoshi has directed many National Award winning and blockbuster movies like Ghayal, Damini, Andaz Apna Apna, Barsaat, Ghatak, China Gate, Pukar, Lajja & The Legend of Bhagat Singh.
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