Kartavya
Dubbed in : Hindi ( Original )
A police officer must hunt an exploited teenage assassin while his own family collapses under caste driven violence and moral absolutism, forcing him toward irreversible choices between institutional…
Kartavya
Dubbed in : Hindi ( Original )
A police officer must hunt an exploited teenage assassin while his own family collapses under caste driven violence and moral absolutism, forcing him toward irreversible choices between institutional loyalty and blood ties. Station House Officer Pawan Malik works in a volatile border town under pressure after a failed protection mission leaves a journalist dead. Assigned to capture a teenage shooter linked to a powerful spiritual leader, he uncovers a network of manipulation that turns children into disposable weapons. At home, his brother secretly elopes with a woman from a marginalized caste, triggering a lethal response from their community. Malik shelters them while pursuing the case, but trust fractures within his own ranks. His closest colleague betrays him, and the two crises merge into a single eruption of violence that destroys his family and forces him to arrest his own father. Station House Officer Pawan Malik (Saif Ali Khan) marks his fortieth birthday on active duty in the small town of Jhamli, a volatile region on the West Uttar Pradesh and Haryana border. His assignment involves coordinating a security detail for investigative journalist Reema Dutta (Radhika Chauhan), who is arriving with a production crew to expose criminal activities linked to Anand Shri (Saurabh Dwivedi), a powerful and highly influential local spiritual guru. While escorting Dutta through a secluded transport route, the convoy is ambushed by two shooters operating a single motorcycle. A chaotic exchange of gunfire ensues, leaving Dutta and one of the attackers dead, while Pawan Malik and his trusted veteran confidant, Assistant Sub-Inspector Ashok Y. (Sanjay Mishra), sustain injuries. The second assailant manages to flee the scene on foot, leaving behind crucial ballistic evidence. Senior Inspector Keshav (Manish Chaudhari) threatens Malik with immediate suspension due to the high-profile failure of the protection detail. Malik negotiates a strict seven-day window to apprehend the fugitive shooter and repair his professional standing, returning home to his patient wife Varsha Malik (Rasika Dugal) while concealing the immense psychological strain of the investigation. Forensic tracking and local field intelligence quickly identify the escaped shooter as Harpal (Yudhvir Ahlawat), a vulnerable sixteen-year-old local boy. Investigations reveal that the youth was systematically manipulated and weaponized by the operatives of Anand Shri to execute the assassination. As Shri orders his enforcers, led by Nirmal (Saharsh Kumar Shukla), to eliminate the boy to prevent any direct link to the ashram, Harpal flees into the rural landscape to evade both the police and the contract killers. Simultaneously, a severe domestic crisis disrupts the Malik household when Pawan Malik discovering that his younger brother Deepak Malik (Saurabh Abrol) has abruptly vanished. Deepak Malik has eloped with Preeti (Suraksha Gaire), a young woman belonging to a marginalized social caste, a union fiercely opposed by both families and the conservative regional council. The patriarch of the family, Harihar Malik (Zakir Hussain), remains unyielding, driven by atavistic notions of lineage and community standing. The village panchayat, under the direct authority of the Sarpanch (Sanjay Taneja), quickly issues a decree demanding the execution of the couple to preserve community honor. Discovering the immediate threat to his brother, Pawan Malik intercepts the eloping couple and covertly transports them to an isolated, off-grid safe-house, instructing them to remain completely hidden until he can arrange safe transport out of the state. The dual crises converge as Pawan Malik successfully locates and detains Harpal before the ashram hit-men can execute him. Recognizing the teenager as an exploited pawn rather than a hardened operative, the officer guarantees the boy legal protection, housing him at an undisclosed location under the direct supervision of Ashok Y. However, an unannounced communication lapse occurs when Harpal goes missing from the secure site, and Malik observes Ashok Y. exhibiting suspicious, evasive behavior before abruptly leaving the station. Malik pursues a lead into a remote sector where a critically wounded informant reveals a devastating institutional betrayal, confirming that Ashok Y. was compromised by the spiritual guru and personally executed Harpal to protect the syndicate. Tensions culminate in a violent confrontation at an abandoned industrial site where Pawan Malik tracks the compromised veteran. A firefight breaks out, and during his final moments, a mortally wounded Ashok Y. confesses his complicity but delivers a final psychological blow, revealing that the safe-house holding the eloped couple was compromised not by the ashram, but by their own casteist family. In a flashback scene narrated by Ashok, Harihar Malik and the armed village elders stand over the bodies in an uncompromising assertion of traditional law. Pawan Malik is shown to place his own father under arrest, escorting him away.
Kartavya
Action · Crime
Film Details
A police officer must hunt an exploited teenage assassin while his own family collapses under caste driven violence and moral absolutism, forcing him toward irreversible choices between institutional loyalty and blood ties. Station House Officer Pawan Malik works in a volatile border town under pressure after a failed protection mission leaves a journalist dead. Assigned to capture a teenage shooter linked to a powerful spiritual leader, he uncovers a network of manipulation that turns children into disposable weapons.
At home, his brother secretly elopes with a woman from a marginalized caste, triggering a lethal response from their community. Malik shelters them while pursuing the case, but trust fractures within his own ranks. His closest colleague betrays him, and the two crises merge into a single eruption of violence that destroys his family and forces him to arrest his own father.
Station House Officer Pawan Malik (Saif Ali Khan) marks his fortieth birthday on active duty in the small town of Jhamli, a volatile region on the West Uttar Pradesh and Haryana border. His assignment involves coordinating a security detail for investigative journalist Reema Dutta (Radhika Chauhan), who is arriving with a production crew to expose criminal activities linked to Anand Shri (Saurabh Dwivedi), a powerful and highly influential local spiritual guru. While escorting Dutta through a secluded transport route, the convoy is ambushed by two shooters operating a single motorcycle.
A chaotic exchange of gunfire ensues, leaving Dutta and one of the attackers dead, while Pawan Malik and his trusted veteran confidant, Assistant Sub-Inspector Ashok Y. (Sanjay Mishra), sustain injuries. The second assailant manages to flee the scene on foot, leaving behind crucial ballistic evidence. Senior Inspector Keshav (Manish Chaudhari) threatens Malik with immediate suspension due to the high-profile failure of the protection detail.
Malik negotiates a strict seven-day window to apprehend the fugitive shooter and repair his professional standing, returning home to his patient wife Varsha Malik (Rasika Dugal) while concealing the immense psychological strain of the investigation. Forensic tracking and local field intelligence quickly identify the escaped shooter as Harpal (Yudhvir Ahlawat), a vulnerable sixteen-year-old local boy. Investigations reveal that the youth was systematically manipulated and weaponized by the operatives of Anand Shri to execute the assassination.
As Shri orders his enforcers, led by Nirmal (Saharsh Kumar Shukla), to eliminate the boy to prevent any direct link to the ashram, Harpal flees into the rural landscape to evade both the police and the contract killers. Simultaneously, a severe domestic crisis disrupts the Malik household when Pawan Malik discovering that his younger brother Deepak Malik (Saurabh Abrol) has abruptly vanished. Deepak Malik has eloped with Preeti (Suraksha Gaire), a young woman belonging to a marginalized social caste, a union fiercely opposed by both families and the conservative regional council. The patriarch of the family, Harihar Malik (Zakir Hussain), remains unyielding, driven by atavistic notions of lineage and community standing.
The village panchayat, under the direct authority of the Sarpanch (Sanjay Taneja), quickly issues a decree demanding the execution of the couple to preserve community honor. Discovering the immediate threat to his brother, Pawan Malik intercepts the eloping couple and covertly transports them to an isolated, off-grid safe-house, instructing them to remain completely hidden until he can arrange safe transport out of the state. The dual crises converge as Pawan Malik successfully locates and detains Harpal before the ashram hit-men can execute him. Recognizing the teenager as an exploited pawn rather than a hardened operative, the officer guarantees the boy legal protection, housing him at an undisclosed location under the direct supervision of Ashok Y.
However, an unannounced communication lapse occurs when Harpal goes missing from the secure site, and Malik observes Ashok Y. exhibiting suspicious, evasive behavior before abruptly leaving the station. Malik pursues a lead into a remote sector where a critically wounded informant reveals a devastating institutional betrayal, confirming that Ashok Y.
was compromised by the spiritual guru and personally executed Harpal to protect the syndicate. Tensions culminate in a violent confrontation at an abandoned industrial site where Pawan Malik tracks the compromised veteran. A firefight breaks out, and during his final moments, a mortally wounded Ashok Y. confesses his complicity but delivers a final psychological blow, revealing that the safe-house holding the eloped couple was compromised not by the ashram, but by their own casteist family.
In a flashback scene narrated by Ashok, Harihar Malik and the armed village elders stand over the bodies in an uncompromising assertion of traditional law. Pawan Malik is shown to place his own father under arrest, escorting him away..