Pokiri, the film - a few comments

I watched ‘Pokiri’ last night – the latest smash hit (I don’t know if it’s his latest actually) of Mahesh Babu. It’s a departure for both the director and the lead actor. Mahesh otherwise known for his extremely chocolate looks and clean movies delivers a thumping performance as a ruffian and a cold-blooded contract killer and Puri Jagannadh, known for light comedies largely starring either Srikanth or Raviteja (the velugubantu, or the grizzly bear) makes an out-and-out action thriller.

I’m not doing a review of the movie here. The movie has been a cult hit already and it’s being made in Hindi too (don’t know who’s gonna star in it though but I would’ve preferred to see Mahesh Babu again). I just want to talk about the importance of getting the facts right by a film-maker – at least the simple facts.

1. Police Officers of the IPS are trained in Dehradun is what the movie says. But the NPA is located in Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra (and the movie is a Telugu one)!
2. The first posting of an IPS Officer is either DySP or ACP. The movie shows an IPS Officer working under an ACP (and that too a promotee)!
3. The hero’s illiterate (among many other things) but in one scene he clearly reads what’s printed on the heroine’s t-shirt (probably the hero forgot this when he saw her)!

I hope we’d not be subjected to anymore factual distortions in its remake!