Nishkarsha

Nishkarsha
Directed by	Sunil Kumar Desai
Produced by	Doddagowda C. Patil G. M. Jayadevappa
Written by	L. R. Ranganath Rao
Screenplay by	Sunil Kumar Desai
Starring	Vishnuvardhan Anant Nag B. C. Patil
Music by	Gunasingh
Cinematography	P. Rajan
Edited by	Janardhan R.
Production company	Srushti Films
Release dates	1993
Running time	146 minutes
Country	India
Language	Kannada

Nishkarsha (Kannada: ನಿಷ್ಕರ್ಷ) is a 1993 Indian Kannada language heist thriller directed by Sunil Kumar Desai, starring Vishnuvardhan, Anant Nag and B. C. Patil. The story revolves around a bank robbery where terrorists become trapped with the hostages. It also explores the many travails of the police commissioner and ATS commando to free the hostages and reign in the terrorists. The film was hailed as a one-of-a-kind in Kannada cinema with its realistic plot elements and that a single location used for most parts of filming.

The film won three awards at the 1993–94 Karnataka State Film Awards — First Best Film, Best Screenplay (Sunil Kumar Desai) and Best Sound Recording (R. Kannan).^[1] Conceptually, the movie is inspired by Die Hard.

Plot

The story opens with a kidnapping of an architect (Avinash) at night. He is whisked away to a secluded location where he is tortured by unknown assailants for information regarding the structural details of a bank which he helped build. When the torture reaches excruciating levels, the architect gives in and shares the confidential details of the security alarms and safety devices in the bank. It is shown that the leader of the group called Devraj (B. C. Patil) is a terrorist and will stop at nothing to get the bank's money to further his group's operations. It is also shown that he commands a strong team of at least 20 deadly terrorists.

The following morning, the scene opens at Bangalore's Manipal center, the place of the bank that Dev and his associates have planned to rob. It is a normal day, the staff slowly trickle in, and business resumes. Meanwhile, a van that enters into the building, unloads a bunch of carton boxes marked to be delivered to the bank. The boxes are then transferred slowly to the bank premises. Unknown to the security guards, the boxes contain automatic weapons and deadly explosives, which the terrorists plan to use to take control of the bank.

Dev's team tactically disables all the security alarms and safety devices. Once the stage is set, they shoot the security guard, shut the front door, and take all the staff present as hostages. Dev and his assistant force the bank manager to open the safe. As they start looting the safe, another alarm, which Avinash had not revealed to them, goes off. Now, the terrorists find themselves trapped in the bank. No matter how hard they try to break out, they realize that they have painted themselves into a corner. The news spreads and an entire police force descends on Manipal Towers. The Police Commissioner Subhash (Ananth Nag) steps in and assesses the situation. He realizes that he does not command the requisite force to accomplish this task and requests the Chief Minister to dispatch an ATS immediately.The Chief Minister agrees immediately.

ATS Commando Ajay (Vishnuvardhan) is apprised of the situation. He is a good friend of Police Commissioner from long time. He quickly assembles a team and meets with the police commissioner. Commando Ajay takes charge of the operation and learns that the terrorist Dev is the brother of another terrorist who he himself had killed a few years ago. Dev, too, learns that Ajay has been enlisted to supervise this operation and demands that he be taken off the force immediately. When he doesn't oblige, Dev kills the bank manager by throwing him out of the building. The commissioner is left with no choice but to listen to the terrorist.Therefore Ajay stand at the groundfloor as he agrees to stop operation.

Soon enough, the police commissioner hatches a plot to bring back Ajay.He orders to his fellow officers to bring large number of pigeons from Shivajinagar.When pigeons arrived, he informs about this to Ajay and leave them to fly.When pigeons start flying, Ajay replaced lookalike commando and takes charge. Meanwhile, the hostages inside grow restless. Fearing that they will all die, they hatch their own plan and attempt a coup. It goes horribly wrong and a few of the hostages get killed. Gundanna (Ramesh Bhat) a lift mechanic, with whom Ajay is in constant touch, acts as a spy and aids Ajay in performing reconnaissance of the terrorists and their activities.

In the end, Ajay infiltrates the terrorists stronghold with help of his trusted commando (Prakash Raj) and Gundanna. Although the commando valiantly gives up his life and Gundanna is seriously injured, Ajay frees the hostages, kills Devraj, and saves the day.

Cast

• Vishnuvardhan as ATS Commando Ajay Kumar
• Ananth Nag as Police Commissioner Subhash Chandra
• B.C.Patil as Devraj
• Suman Nagarkar as Bank Employee Suman
• Ramesh Bhat as Gundanna
• Prakash Raj as ATS Commando Suresh
• Avinash as Bank Architect Ramakrishna

References

External links

• Nishkarsha at the Internet Movie Database