Movie Review: "Officer On Duty (2025)" ~An Indian Thriller Movie

I'm @pretemi and I'm so excited to be here as a first timer to share my review with my fellow Hivers on this amazing movie I watched over the weekend.

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"Officer On Duty" is a well orchestrated thriller movie that will keep you glued to the screen from the beginning to the end, I had to watch it over and over again. I love the intense action and compelling investigation, it was strategic and brainstorming. I was in awe at how Kunchacko Boban's who was named "Hari" in the movie (main actor) was so brainy and fast-thinking in every aspect of the investigation process till the culprits were found, it was so amazing and challenging for me because I love people that can think fast and accurately. He could promptly determine or will I say "assume" the next step the criminals are going to take.

The movie started with the scene of an officer who wrote his suicide note with his uniform and committed suicide in his house by the influence of a group of young drug addicts.
Moving on the scene of a stolen jewellery case in a bus that arrived at the police station following the arrival of the short-tempered officer Hari, who will not hesitate to transfer aggression on anyone that comes his way due to the guilt of his daughter's death. Officer Hari took up the stolen jewellery case and begin to unravel it not knowing he was on the journey to knowing the people that caused the death of his beloved daughter.

Hari's beloved daughter Nila, committed suicide because of the shame of being raped by a gang of drug addicts 😔
Hari suffers from PTSD following the suicide of his elder daughter Nila, which causes him to express his trauma violently particularly toward his wife, Geetha and his younger daughter.

Hari started investigating on the stolen jewellery which lead to a pawned gold case. He receives a complaint about a KSRTC bus conductor named Chandran attempting to mortgage an imitation gold chain. Chandran said that he had bought the chain for his daughter's birthday, but when he went to mortgage it, the bank said that it is made of fake gold. He claimed to have bought the chain on Aug 2nd 2022, from a reputable jewelry store. Chandran says that he wanted to mortgage the chain because he needed funds for his wife's surgery but they discovered the chain was fake. This seemingly minor case lead Hari to investigate a series of gruesome crimes, which are revealed to be connected to his own past personal tragedy of his daughter's death.

Hari searched for the original chain at all the gold and pawn shops in the city and finds that it had indeed been pawned by a woman named Haseena. Hari found out that Chandran is telling the truth, and he indeed bought the gold chain. Hari discovers that Chandran's teenage daughter had switched the chain herself after being sexually exploited by an unknown perpetrator.
Haseena wasn't at that time in town, but she had pawned another chain at the same time, which was originally bought by Joseph, Joseph was the same police officer that committed suicide in the first scene with his uniform. Hari meets Joseph's wife who explained that she is convinced that her husband did not commit suicide. She also said that the chain was bought for her daughter Angel by Joseph her father. Angel claimed that her chain was also snatched by a biker (which was a lie). Hari suspected that Angel was sexually exploited too.

When Hari was still investigating the chains cases and still about to file a case concerning it, when Chandran's daughter committed suicide. Chandran blamed Hari for his daughter's death. Witnessing her death triggers Hari's buried trauma, revealing that Nila had also been sexually exploited in the same way as Chandran's daughter was. In a fit of rage, Hari kills a drug addict named Shyam in their custody after discovering a sex tape of Nila and other girls they had raped on his laptop.

The most interesting parts of the movie began when Shyam friends started attacking and killing police officers and their family in a way of avenging the death of their friend Shyam but Hari was able to deduce their plans even when they tried to have a clean execution of their evil deeds. He got to know one of them which lead to the unraveling of the entire gang and the town they actually stay.

Hari and his team were able to track them after all their hiding and the evil they perpetrated even with Hari's family too. They were taken to jail but later bailed out. However, Hari knowing how brutal the gang was poisoned their drug and the entire gang lost their lives.

This movie is a must watch for everyone aspiring to be among the police force. It's a very educative movie for people that love to brainstorm and look for the causes and reasons for a problem even when it's invisible.