Raghu Mukherjee plays a cop in his next, Dantakathe

Raghu Mukherjee, who was last seen as a politician in Dhananjaya’s period drama Head Bush, is ready with his next. Directed by Vachan, the film is called Dantakathe, and is a police investigation tale featuring three cops. Raghu plays a sub-Inspector, while P Ravishankar is his superior officer. Kishore chips in as a special investigation officer, with the narrative taking place from the perspective of these three cops.

Talking about what attracted him to the film, Raghu said that procedural dramas tend to have a set pattern and that he’s heard a lot of such scripts, whereas Dantakathe stood out because Vachan had written it based on a news clipping he’d come across. “The film not only has a good story, but a great cast and crew as well, all of which became reasons for me to take it up,” he said at the motion poster launch of the trailer. The actor added that Dantakathe is a film that he is nervously excited about, because it had a different subject and offered him a good role.

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Elaborating on this, director Vachan explained that the film follows an incident that occurs within the jurisdiction of a rural police station, where Raghu is posted as sub Inspector. This is then brought to the attention of senior officers, including a DySP played by P Ravishankar and Kishore as a special investigation officer. The filmmaker says that Dantakathe, despite being a police procedural, does not follow the routine story patterns of, say, following a serial killer, and that to his best knowledge, it is a never-before-attempted plot. How this story fits the title will emerge in the film.

Dantakathe is currently in post-production, which the team hopes to finish in another 2-3 months. A decision on a possible release date will be taken thereafter.