Encounter Agents
I saw an awesome documentary on Foreign Correspondant last night, about Mumbai in India, "Maximum City", the New York of India.
The cops are called "encounter agents", a euphamism for hit squads. They interviewed a famous self-styled dirty harry cop, who has action films made about him, he said the criminal gangs are filth and he is the cleaner. He is the coolest indian guy I have ever seen. Like Clint Eastwood if he was Indian. They shoot to kill, and call it self defense. And when I say shoot to kill, I mean they go looking for them, find them, and shoot them.
They interviewed a gang dude, he was shitting himself. The legal system has too many loopholes, so the cops say "fine. weak legal system? no problem" and saddle up in minivans with AK47s and magnums. American cops watching that doco would rush to the loo to rub one out. The cops are all in casual gear too, an hilarious motley bunch of indian guys, armed to the fucking teeth. They have like a huge mafia there. I want to see the films based on it.
The cops are called "encounter agents", a euphamism for hit squads. They interviewed a famous self-styled dirty harry cop, who has action films made about him, he said the criminal gangs are filth and he is the cleaner. He is the coolest indian guy I have ever seen. Like Clint Eastwood if he was Indian. They shoot to kill, and call it self defense. And when I say shoot to kill, I mean they go looking for them, find them, and shoot them.
They interviewed a gang dude, he was shitting himself. The legal system has too many loopholes, so the cops say "fine. weak legal system? no problem" and saddle up in minivans with AK47s and magnums. American cops watching that doco would rush to the loo to rub one out. The cops are all in casual gear too, an hilarious motley bunch of indian guys, armed to the fucking teeth. They have like a huge mafia there. I want to see the films based on it.
posted by stompbox at 7/27/2005 10:20:00 am
4 Comments:
hey there
i am from india myself , and these encounter specialists as they are known are feared a lot.
i mean the bad guys know that if these ppl get their whiff..no courts no summons..just bang bang.
but then its like a good cop bad cop thing many of them have criminal contatcs and get sucked into it as well.
Dude can you recommend some good Indian action films about this stuff?
there are ltsa good movies out...watch "company" its by ram gopal verma and is based on a true story, also watch "sehar" which has just come out, "sarfarosh" is a also a good one. then there is this one about the life of an encounter specialist called "ab tak chappan(56)" which roughly translates into "till now 56" that is the no. of bad guys he has killed.
i'll let you know about some more
Thanks dude! Now I just have to find them subtitled locally.
There are a lot of Indian grocery stores which are also Indian video stores here, I'll have to go in and ask....
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