Shankar IPS


Shankar IPS is a 2010 Indian Kannada language action - crime film written and directed by M. S. Ramesh and produced by K. Manju. The film stars Duniya Vijay along with Catherine Tresa, a model making her debut, and Ragini Dwivedi in the lead roles. The film deals with the social issues such as acid attacks on women, plight of women call centers employees and others. The film was also dubbed in Hindi with the same title name.
The film released on 21 May 2010 rated U/A across Karnataka and set high expectations for its storyline and toned body of the lead actor. However upon release, the film generally met with negative reviews from the critics and audience.

Plot

Shankar Prasad is a tough police officer on a mission to eradicate all the social evils around him. His unique style is to kill his enemies out rightly in encounters which irks most of the corrupt politicians and cops. He gets dismissed and transferred several times but does not get deterred in completion of his mission. Shilpa is a wannabe beauty contestant winner who dreams of winning the Miss India title. She comes across with the top business tycoon Saklej's son who assaults her and even makes an acid attack on her. Shankar is on a mission to hunt this criminal even as he develops a love feeling towards her

Cast

Director M. S. Ramesh teamed up with popular producer K. Manju for his second directorial venture and named it Shankar IPS. He was on the hunt of a well built actor who would require to do some heavy action sequences for the film and play a cop. For this role, he opted Duniya Vijay again after his first film Thaakath. Vijay was required to build a six-pack abs for his role of a tough cop and the director teamed up with ace body builder Kitty to train to build up Vijay's physiques. Bangalore based model, Catherine Tresa was roped in to play the female lead. Another actress Ragini Dwivedi was cast to play the second lead role.
The filming took place for 65 days at a stretch and was shot primarily in locales of Mysore. Some song sequences were shot at Bangkok.

Soundtrack

All the songs are composed by Gurukiran teaming up with the director M. S. Ramesh yet again. The audio launch was much amidst the fanfare held at Mysore with actor Prem Kumar being the special invitee. The event was held at a hotel on 11 May 2010.