Pranaam (2019)

A bright young man grows up in Lucknow with one ambition: to clear the civil services exam and serve the country as an IAS officer. But a clash with corrupt and powerful men lands him on the wrong side of the law, and step by step the honest student becomes a feared gangster, while still hoping to find his way back to the life he wanted. Pranaam is a Hindi crime drama directed by Sanjiv Jaiswal, with Rajeev Khandelwal in the lead, Sameera Reddy as the heroine, and Atul Kulkarni, Abhimanyu Singh and Vijay Raaz in supporting roles. It is a straightforward story of a system that turns good people bad, carried by Khandelwal's performance.