Shagird (transl. Disciple) is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia starring Nana Patekar as Hanumant Singh, Mohit Ahlawat as Mohit Kumar and Rimi Sen as Varsha Mathur. The film released on 13 May 2011. Despite a positive critical reception, the film failed to perform well commercially.
The film starts with Bunty Bhaiya, who is a gangster, being arrested in Ghaziabad. In Delhi, Mohit Kumar is about to join the Crime branch as a sub-inspector under Senior inspector Hanumant Singh. There he meets Singh’s team, which is taking bribes from a builder and their commission from the land mafia lord who is threatening the builder’s life.
On arrival, he asks for Hanumant Singh where Rathi tells him that Hanumant Singh is not a human, he is in between humans and God. He is afraid of God, and Humans are afraid of Hanumant Singh.
Meanwhile, Hanumant Singh visits land mafia lord Choudhary as a Land owner from Rajasthan, where he kills him and his gang members. Two of the remaining gang members escapes and hides in a house. There they are surrounded by police. Shortly a news crew arrives to lead by Varsha Mathur from the Aaj Tak news channel to cover the ongoing incident. There Hanumant takes their camera and goes to the door of the house where gang members are hiding. There he pretends to be a camera man from the news channel, and as soon as they open the door, he shoots them. Later he tells the media that both were wanted, terrorists. Later he is joined by his teammates and takes Mohit for a drive. On the other side of the city, a person comes and threatens Hanumant’s wife of killing Hanumant and his whole family if he doesn’t stop doing his mischievous activities.
Hanumant takes Mohit to a hotel and asks him how he joined Crime Branch directly and about his hobbies and personal life. He later drops him to a party and goes home. Where on arrival, police informs him that gunshots were fired on his house. He tells his wife to leave India as soon as she gets her passport.
Bunty bhaiya has been transferred to Delhi jail, where he is treated as a high-profile personality by the jailer. In jail, Bunty befriends with two terrorists of Lashkar-e-Haq. Hanumant takes Mohit to Rajmani’s (politician) birthday. There Rajmani tells him to encounter Ali tonight at his birthday party.