Mumbai: Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has announced his next project, ‘Police Company’, with actor Harshvardhan Rane set to portray real-life Mumbai police officer Daya Nayak.
The film, produced by T-Series, will explore the Mumbai Police squad formed to tackle the city’s growing gang activities in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Announcing the project, RGV wrote on X, “My NEXT film’s NAME being produced by T SERIES is .. POLICE COMPANY. With the tagline ‘It Is More Dangerous Than D Company’. The police is an institution, and an underworld company is a money-making organisation.. But when an institution is given extra powers, it will soon become a company.”
Elaborating on the project, Varma revealed that the film will be inspired by the special squad and will focus on one of its members, Daya Nayak, played by Harshvardhan Rane.
He wrote, “POLICE COMPANY is the story inspired by that SQUAD based on one of its team members DAYA NAYAK which is being played by HARSH VARDHAN RANE. The film has a huge ensemble cast, the details of which will be revealed soon.”
While explaining the concept behind his upcoming film, RGV also revisited the rise of Dawood Ibrahim and the formation of D-Company.
He wrote, “After DAWOOD IBRAHIM brutally finished most of his rival gangs, he grew his GANG into a COMPANY and then left for DUBAI, leaving his protegee CHOTA RAJAN to head the operations of D COMPANY.”
He further recalled how the split between Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Rajan transformed Mumbai’s underworld and contributed to a surge in gang-related activities across the city.
“Subsequently, a chain of events led to a split between Dawood and Rajan, which in turn caused a vacuum in the Mumbai underworld. Taking advantage of the situation, many other gangs jumped in to stake their claim for the top spot, creating a massive outburst of criminal activities. The system was completely failing to halt the gang activities, which in turn was attracting a lot of young men from places like U P, M P, Bihar, etc to join the underworld companies. In a panicky situation, a special squad was created which, between 1997 and 2004, killed more than 300 gangsters,” he said.
RGV has previously explored Mumbai’s underworld in films such as ‘Satya’ and ‘Company’.
