Patna, Nov. 14 :     With barely a few months left for the Assembly polls, Rashtriya Janata Dal workers are already a scared, anxious lot. And the latest Manoj Bajpai starrer, which depicts Bihar?s ?raw reality? has added to their list of woes. Shool (The Trident) portrays a Yadav leader as an embodiment of evil pitted against an honest Rajput police officer. The machiavellian MLA, Bachchu Yadav, is a take-off on a ruthless, venal politician who leers at a nautch girl who sings of ?looting Bihar and Uttar Pradesh?. He has his own version of the law, which he calls it ?a mad man?s dream?. His antithesis is the honest police officer, Samar Pratap Singh, who has lost his wife and 10-year-old daughter because of Yadav. Singh ultimately loses his mental balance and kills the MLA by storming the Assembly. In the dark, implacable mood of the film, it is Yadav who calls the shots. Besides the obvious similarity in name between the villain and a real-life leader, the film also shows the anarchic situation in Bihar where a majority of police officers are puppets in the hands of their political masters. Only a few live up to their convictions, but they fight a losing battle. The stark projection has alarmed Yadav MLAs in the ruling RJD who feel the political statements in the movie are a direct attack on them. And they are pressuring party chief Laloo Prasad Yadav to take action against the producer and the director. According to them, the film is a malicious campaign and, if screened, could have a disastrous impact in rural Bihar. ?Since we are ruling Bihar for the last 10 years, people are just pointing fingers at us,? said an RJD minister. Former Congress minister Shakeeluzzaman, however, puts the situation in perspective. According to him, the politicisation of the police in Bihar has been taken to its extreme in the last 10 years. ?The last five years are its worst phase,? he said. ?The districts were distributed among party workers for taking care of the district police officers. Earlier, no one ever thought of directly taking action against an SP or an inspector.? The worst fear of RJD workers is that the film might become a handy tool for the Opposition. But party leaders have advised Laloo against vilifying the film directly. It could boomerang upon them. Instead, they say, in situations like this subtlety is the key. Like persuading cable operators or hall owners not to screen the movie. As well as alerting district-level workers against the film?s ?malicious interpretation?.