Encounter: The Killing is a 2002 Indian Bollywood film produced and directed by Ajay Phansekar. It stars Naseeruddin Shah, Dilip Prabhavalkar and Tara Deshpande in pivotal roles.
Plot
The film revolves around a Police Inspector (Naseeruddin Shah), who is out to find the parents of a boy, Lallya (Rahul Mehendale) whom he had killed in a police encounter. The movie shows the hypocrisy of the middle class wherein their kids are involved in crimes due to lack of parental attention and yet the indifferent parents live in a different world, oblivious of the reality.
Cast
Naseeruddin Shah... Inspector Sam Bharucha
Dilip Prabhavalkar... Ponappa Awadhe
Tara Deshpande... Kiran Jaywant
Ratna Pathak Shah... Mrs. Sudhakar Rao
Akash Khurana... Sudhakar Rao
Deepak Shirke... Tatya
Avtar Gill... D.C.P. Sanjeev Dabholkar... Inspector Avinash Marathe Rahul Mehendale... Lalya aka Sunil Rao, Sudhakar's son Sachin Kshirsagar... Sonya aka Sonal Deshpande Sushant Shelar... Martin Mahesh Jadhav... Nana aka Anand Satpal Rajan Bane as Inspector Kharat Rajendra Mehra as Kiran's father Jaywant Wadkar as Jadya Roshan Tirandaz as Shirin Bharucha, Sam's wife Brijesh Tripathi as Police Commissioner Sharad Vyas as Bhiku Seth Suman Mastakar as Freedom Fighter Deshpande Milind Vaidya as Inspector Yadav Vinay Patkar as Inspector Shinde Firdous Mevawala as Justice Pokhranwala Satish Salagare as Maath, Matter's younger brother Kailash Churi as Matter Vimal Mhatre as Matter's mother Sachin Shinde as Kanya, Matter's youngest brother Shivaji Shinde as Ramanna, Jalsa Bar & Restaurant owner Nagesh Morvekar as Sadappa, Jalsa Bar & Restaurant manager Purva Deshpande as Sujata Rao, Sudhakar's daughter Rajshree Nikam as Nana's sister Medha Gokhale as Martin's mother Smita Oak as Kiran's mother Tara Malwankar as Sonal's mother Vijay Shinde as Gunda Sachin Thakur as Joseph, Martin's brother Rajan Patil as Bar owner Raju Kadam as Bhakkam Atma Bansode as Samaj Sewak Ravindra Diwekar as Nana's father Ravindra Bijur as music teacher Dinesh Kanade as Pangya