Simmba

***Simmba*** is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by Rohit Shetty Picturez, Reliance Entertainment and Dharma Productions. The third installment of Shetty's Cop Universe, it stars Ranveer Singh, Sonu Sood and Sara Ali Khan.

## Plot

Sangram "Simmba" Bhalerao (Ranveer Singh) is an antiheroic orphan from Shivgad, the same town where Bajirao Singham was raised, where he observes how policemen make money in the form of bribes, finding himself motivated to become a police officer, and succeeds. Getting bribes from some local thieves and a jeweller, Simmba enjoys and takes full advantage of the lifestyle of a corrupt cop.

Simmba is soon transferred to the Miramar police station in Goa by Home Minister Vinayak Dutta (Uday Tikekar), where he sees Shagun Sathe (Sara Ali Khan) and falls in love with her at first sight. He meets his fellow policemen and one of his juniors, Nityanand Mohile (Ashutosh Rana), who is an honest constable, hesitates to salute Simmba as he's a corrupt cop. To prove his worth in Miramar, he interrupts a pub party run by an influential gangster named Durva Yashwant Ranade (Sonu Sood)'s brothers, Sadashiv "Sada" Ranade (Amrit Pal Singh) and Gaurav "Giri" Ranade (Saurabh Gokhale) and demands more money from them, whilst promising that he will let them continue with their illegal activities.

Durva agrees and uses Simmba to free the land of an old person named Vaman Rao (Arun Nalawade), who is forced to sign the papers by Simmba. Meanwhile, Simmba develops motherly and sisterly bonds with several women and girls, one of whom happens to be Aakruti Dave (Vaidehi Parashurami), a young woman who reminds Simmba of his teacher. Aakruti files a complaint against Sada and Giri for dealing illicit drugs in their pub and using children as peddlers. Simmba initially ignores this after being pacified by Durva, and Shagun, in the meantime, falls in love with him.

Meanwhile, Aakruti learns about the drug racket in the club and goes there one night with Chhotu, a mute boy who's her student. She videotapes everything there by her cell phone to show evidence to the police but is caught by Sada and Giri. Chhotu discreetly records Sada and Giri assaulting Aakruti and flees once both of them realize. Aakruti is brutally raped by Sada and Giri. Chhotu tries to tell Aakruti's friend Kavya (Neha Mahajan) about Aakruti being in danger. Kavya whilst being chased by Durva's goons goes to Simmba to file Aakruti's missing complaint.

Aakruti is found injured in hospital. Simmba tries to talk to her, but she dies, leaving him devastated. The police recover Aakruti's phone and the video which she shot, and Durva sends his goons to get the phone from Simmba, who is present, mends his ways, and fights them all. Simmba finally wears his police uniform, and seeing this change in him, Mohile finally salutes him as they arrest Sada and Giri. He apologises to Vaman Rao and returns the land swindled from him.

In the court, Simmba is shocked to find Aakruti's video being deleted. He beats up Durva's friend, Corporator David Cameron (Vipin Sharma), who gave a false statement in the court, leading to his suspension orders. He decides to kill Sada and Giri before he goes, and plans to show it as an encounter. He shoots them both and shows as if he killed them in the act of self-defence. An SIT committee is set up by the state, who question Simmba's encounter. Aiming to achieve clarity to the situation, Vinayak appoints a neutral officer to handle Aakruti's case, as well as Simmba's controversial encounter.

Enraged, Durva and his goons capture Simmba. Suddenly, DCP Bajirao Singham (Ajay Devgn) arrives to rescue him, and both of them beat up Durva and his men. Singham tells Simmba that he is the neutral officer appointed by the state committee to handle his case and gives a statement that Simmba killed Sadashiv and Gaurav in the act of self-defence. He also calls Durva's mother Bharti (Sarita Joshi) and wife Varsha (Shri Swara Dubey), who each state that it was Sada and Giri who assaulted Aakruti and that the brothers ran a drug racket and several other illegal activities.

As a result of these crimes, Durva is sentenced to 7 years of rigorous imprisonment by the court. Singham reveals that he helped Simmba despite being against his corrupt actions so that he could instil a fear of law in the minds of men who do not respect women. When Singham leaves Miramar Police Station, he chats with DCP Veer Sooryavanshi (Akshay Kumar) on the phone. and also congratulates him on his new post as the ATS chief. Sooryavanshi tells him that he will meet him soon.

## Characters

* Ranveer Singh as Inspector Sangram Bhalerao a.k.a. "Simmba"
	+ Yash Rane as Little Sangram Bhalerao a.k.a "Simmba"
* Sonu Sood as Durva Yashwant Ranade
* Sara Ali Khan as Shagun Sathe
* Ashutosh Rana as Head-Constable Nityanand Mohile
* Siddhartha Jadhav as Sub-Inspector Santosh Tawade
* Vaidehi Parashurami as Aakruti Dave
* Supriya Roy as Supriya Singh
* Ulka Gupta as Nandini Mohile
* Suchitra Bandekar as Mrs. Mohile
* Abhishek Khandekar as IG Prakash Deshmukh
* Sulbha Arya as Iyer Mausi
* Ashwini Kalsekar as Judge Smita Parulkar
* Neha Mahajan as Kavya Salgaonkar
* Nandu Madhav as Mr. Dave
* Shri Swara Dubey as Varsha Ranade
* Sarita Joshi as Bharti Ranade
* Saurabh Gokhale as Gaurav "Giri" Ranade
* Amrit Pal Singh as Sadashiv "Sada" Ranade
* Puja Agarwal as News Reporter
* Vijay Patkar as Havaldar Alok Borkar
* Ashok Samarth as Advocate Joshi
* Ganesh Yadav as Advocate Sawalkar
* Arun Nalawade as Vaman Rao
* Uday Tikekar as Vinayak Dutta
* Vipin Sharma as Corporator David Cameron
* Sahil Joshi as Aniket Mohre a.k.a. Chhotu
* Ravjeet Singh as Dheeraj
* Ronjini Chakraborty as Poornima
* Anil Mange as Purab
* Besant Ravi as Sub-Inspector Gaikwad
* Chitra Shukla as Gayatri
* Sneha James as Inspector Gauri Rai
* Aarti Kulkarni as Good Food Lady
* Ashish Warang as Constable Ashish Tambe
* Umakant Patil as Sub-Inspector Umakant Bhide
* Ajay Devgn as DCP Bajirao M. Singham
* Akshay Kumar as DCP Veer Sooryavanshi (post credit scene)
* Tusshar Kapoor in a special appearance in the song "Aankh Marey"
* Kunal Khemu in a special appearance in the song "Aankh Marey"
* Shreyas Talpade in a special appearance in the song "Aankh Marey"
* Arshad Warsi in a special appearance in the song "Aankh Marey"
* Karan Johar in a special appearance in the song "Aankh Marey"