Salaakhen (1998 film)
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| Directed by | Guddu Dhanoa |
| Written by | Dilip Shukla |
| Produced by | Guddu Dhanoa Rajiv Tolani |
| Starring | Sunny Deol Raveena Tandon |
| Cinematography | Shripad Natu |
| Edited by | A. Muthu |
| Music by | Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen |
Production company | Cinema Arts |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Salaakhen is a 1998 Indian Hindi action film directed by Guddu Dhanoa. It stars Sunny Deol and Raveena Tandon in pivotal roles. The movie did average business at the box office.
Plot
The film starts with scenes in which police is in search of Vishal Agnihotri (Sunny Deol) who is killer of four prominent personalities of the city. Suddenly Vishal comes on the scene talking with a prominent lawyer. He deals with the lawyer to prove him innocent in the court for Rs.100 million. According to the deal, the lawyer proves Vishal innocent by presenting wrong witnesses wrongfully. When judge is about to announce the decision, Vishal kills his lawyer and accepts his guilt of killing four people. The news spreads on media like a forest fire. An inquiry committee was constituted to see other side of picture in Vishal's case. Vishal appears before the committee and film goes back flash which was Akandivli-based Sachidanand Agnihotri (Anupam Kher) is an honest school-teacher, who has always faced problems due to his honesty, first with Poornima School; then in a Government school, and now he has come forward to testify against the sexual assault and murder of a young woman from Worli. Sachidanand points an accusing finger at Nagesh, the son of prominent and influential Jaspal Rana (Amrish Puri). Sachidanand's family, which consists of his wife, Gayetri (Farida Jalal) , and son, Vishal, attempt in vain to talk him out of testifying. The Police are forced to arrest Nagesh and hold him in a cell. Then the Police, headed by a corrupt Assistant Commissioner of Police, Kamble, attempt to intimidate Sachidanand and follow him everywhere under the pretext of protection. Sachidanand is driven out of his mind, and on the day of the testimony, Nagesh's lawyer, Ashok Pradhan, confuses him to such an extent that Sachidanand kills himself. Vishal, who is being held in prison for assaulting several policemen, breaks out, abducts Nagesh, and then kills Ashok Pradhan. When Kamble comes to Nagesh's rescue, Vishal kills both of them. He then hunts down Jaspal Rana and eventually kills him. The film comes in present. After listening Vishal's story, court hands Vishal a sentence of 3 years to life imprisonment for which he tells the judge that don't appoint peoples like Jaspal Rana to be ministers so guy like him would not have to take the law into their own hands to deal with ministers like Jaspal Rana.
Cast
- Sunny Deol as Vishal S. Agnihotri
- Raveena Tandon as Neha G. Rao
- Anupam Kher as Sachidanand Agnihotri
- Farida Jalal as Gayatri S. Agnihotri
- Amrish Puri as Jaspal Rana
- Mohan Joshi as Advocate Ashok Pradhan
- Deven Verma as Giri Rao
- Dinesh Hingoo as Badri
- Harish Patel as Bhutaneshwar
- Manisha Koirala as an item number "Pichhu Pade Hai"
Soundtrack
| 1 | "Dhak Dhak" | Abhijeet, Shweta Shetty |
| 2 | "Pichhu Pade Hai" | Shweta Shetty |
| 3 | "Pagal Diwana Awara" | Vinod Rathod, Chithra |
| 4 | "Zubaan Pe Jo Nahin Aaye" | Udit Narayan, Chithra |
| 5 | "Punajbi Kudi Maare Jhatke" | Lalit Sen, Hema Sardesai |
| 6 | "Pagal Karna Pagal Hona" | Udit Narayan, Anuradha Paudwal |
| 7 | "Dil Mera Le Gayee" | Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik |
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