Though there have been whispers galore of encounter-cop Pradeep Sharma being the hero of the new cop film <em>Maximum</em>, we now have it from a source extremely close to the film that Sonu Sood’s character is based completely on Sharma and that in fact, Sood and the <em>Maximum</em> director Kabir Kaushik have taken Sharma fully into confidence to get the details from the real-life ‘encounter’ cop’s story right.