Khaki

Khaki is a 2020 Indian Kannada-language vigilante action drama film written and directed by Naveen Reddy. B and produced by Tarun Shivappa and Manasa Tarun. It features Chiranjeevi Sarja and Tanya Hope along with Chaya Singh in the lead roles. The supporting cast includes Dev Gill and Shivmani. The score and soundtrack for the film is by Rithvik Muralidhar, the cinematography is by Bala, and the editing by K. M. Prakash. The film was released on 24 January 2020. Plot A young Chiru seeks help from a police officer to help his sister, who had gone into labour, but the officer does not budge and leave. When Chiru returns to the house, his sister died leaving him orphaned which also causes hatred towards the police department. Chiru starts to trouble the police and gets caught in the process, where he meets an honest woman constable Chaya, where she consoles him and Chiru starts to respect Chaya as his sister. When Chaya gets a transfer order from the department, she tells Chiru to fight for what is right and learn what is wrong. Years later, Chiru is a do-gooder in a neighbourhood, where he works as a cable operator living with his friend Subhash and his wife Navya with an infant daughter. Chaya has now became the Sub-inspector of the same neighbourhood, where she investigates about the case of an old man suicide case, along with garbage dumping in the neighbourhood. When Chaya meets Chiru to divulge the information, she dies from a car accident. After Chaya's death, the neighbourhood has been infested in waste dumping along with chain snatching activities, unknown to anyone it was orchestrated by neighbourhood's MLA under the orders from higher forces. After realizing that they are on their own now as the new SI Narasimha.G is a corrupt cop. Chiru along with his lover Lasya, Subhash and with neighbourhood people forms a team of vigilance group dubbed Parallel Police. The vigilance group is a success where crime rates in the neighbourhood are reduced. However, the MLA plans water scarcity in the neighbourhood, but the problems are thwarted by Chiru and the neighbourhood people. One night, Subhash and Chiru finds the land survey files, which is purchased by only one person Dev, a Dubai-based businessman, who is the mastermind behind the waste dumping and the neighbourhood's problems.