Ajay Devgn’s role as ‘Amay Patnaik’ in the movie, Raid had floored the audience when it was released in 2018. After seven years, the much-awaited sequel, Raid 2, has again awed the audience. It seems to be filling up the box office pretty well too. Devgn is back with his grounded and serious persona of ‘Amay Patnaik’, who has set his eyes on another possibly corrupt politician, ‘Dada Manohar Bhai’, played by Ritesh Deshmukh.
However, the most interesting part about the film’s premise is that it is inspired by some of the biggest raids of the Income Revenue Service (IRS) in the 1980s. Even the characters played by Ajay Devgn and Saurabh Shukla in Raid 1 are based on real-life people. Devgn’s character is inspired by Sharda Prasad Pandey, a Lucknow-based IRS officer, who was famous for his fearlessness while conducting raids on very powerful people.
Sharda Prasad Pandey went toe-to-toe with an influential politician
In the 2018 film, Ajay Devgn’s character was seen investigating a powerful politician known as ‘Rameshwar Singh’ played by Saurabh Shukla. The politician is much loved by the public and is called Tauji by them. The leader is immensely influential and allegedly corrupt, which led to a complicated standoff between the income tax department led by ‘Amay Patnaik’ and ‘Rameshwar Singh’. A raid is conducted, despite the politician trying his best to threaten and hinder the officer and his team.
