Sunday, September 29, 2013

Special 26 (Hindi Movie / Bollywood Film / Indian Cinema - DVD) 2013



It is not only difficult to catch Ajay Vardhan... it's impossible
More or less based on true events, SPECIAL 26 tells of a rash of fake raids conducted by an audacious band of thieves passing itself off as CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) agents or Income Tax inspectors across the breadth of India back in the mid-1980s. That these con jobs went unreported is indicative of the mastermind's acuity in selecting his victims, most of whom were shady businessmen or politicians whose loss of ill-gotten gains wasn't near as detrimental as the resulting negative publicity would've been should they had brought in the proper authorities. These thieves never resorted to flashing guns. Instead they wielded a tool that was even more intimidating, that of governmental authority.

When asked how many such raids had been executed, one accomplice reluctantly admits to half a century. So, given that sheer number and that, it turns out, thirteen such cases had been detected in the past two years, perhaps it's inevitable that, at some point, the real CBI...

DVD does not work
I was looking forward to see this movie, heard that Akshay Kumar acually "acts" in this movie. However, the DVD does not work. Tried it on multiple devices.

Good movie
A true story very well done in a timely manner, It happened a long time ago. Their may be a second one soon.

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