Yuddho (or Juddho; ) is a 2005 Indian action thriller film written and directed by Rabi Kinagi and produced by Shree Venkatesh Films. The screenplay of the film was written by N.K. Salil. It is an unofficial remake of the 2000 Hindi film Kurukshetra. The story revolves around a police officer who is charged with false accusation of murdering his wife and imprisoned as he has been investigating a rape case that involves the younger brother of a powerful MLA. The officer then manages to evade the prison and get his revenge. It stars Mithun Chakraborty and Jeet for the first time together, along with Debashree Roy, Koel Mallick, Kaushik Banerjee, Bharat Kaul, and Rajatava Dutta.
The film became the highest-grossing Bengali film of the year earning more than 3 crore at the box office.
Plot
police officer Agnishwar Ray keeps getting transferred due to his aggressive nature towards criminals. He ends up at Uttarpara police station where young boy Surya Sinha is the local strongman. Ranjit Saha, the younger brother of the local MLA named Joy Chand Saha, abducts a girl when the girl was returning from a college function, and violently rapes her in his car, leaving her to die. Agnishwar arrests Ranjit. To take revenge, the MLA gets Agnishwar put in prison and his wife Sandhya murdered. There starts Agnishwar's revenge where he slowly kills all the persons responsible for putting him behind bars and killing his wife, ending with the death of the MLA and himself at the hands of Surya, who has by now become a police officer.
Cast
Mithun Chakraborty as DSP Agnishwar Roy
Jeet as Surya Sinha, A local gangster from Keyatola turned Sub-inspector
Debashree Roy as Sandhya Roy
Koel Mullick as Barsha Sinha
Rajatava Dutta as Joy Chand Saha, MLA of Uttarpara
Kaushik Banerjee as Ghoshal, Agnishwar Roy's junior in the department
Bharat Kaul as Ranjit Saha, Joy Chanda Saha's younger brother
Sumit Ganguly as Kaalu, Joy Chand Saha's henchman
N.K. Salil as constable Haripada
Ashok Mukherjee
Sanjib Dasgupta as DSP Pradhan
Soundtrack
Production
Initially, the role of Mrs. Sandhya Roy was offered to Rachna Banerjee and then to Rituparna Sengupta. After both of them refused to play the role, it was offered to Debashree Roy.