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Aaghaaz
Directed byYogesh Ishwar
Screenplay byNikhil Saini
Produced byDr. D. Ramanaidu
StarringSunil Shetty
Sushmita Sen
Namrata Shirodkar
CinematographyShyam K. Naidu
Edited byK. V. Krishna Reddy
Music byAnu Malik
Distributed bySuresh Productions
Release date
  • 6 October 2000 (2000-10-06)
Running time
160 mins
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Aaghaaz (Template:Lang-hi; Translated: Start) is a 2000 Indian Bollywood mobster action film directed by Yogesh Ishwar. It is the remake of a Telugu movie "Shivaiah", which was also produced by D. Suresh Babu.

Plot summary

The film is the story of Govind Narang (Sunil Shetty), an honest and chivalrous man from a small village in Punjab. He falls in love with Sudha (Sushmita Sen), but marries Masterji's daughter, Pushpa (Suman Ranganathan), to save her from public ridicule. Pushpa was impregnated by a police officer who refuses to marry her. She does not love Govind and hates Sudha with a passion. Together with her brother, Laxman (Sharad Kapoor), Pushpa tries to expel Sudha from of the village, but is unsuccessful. When Laxman finds out about Pushpa's infidelity, he poisons her. After his wife's death, Govind relocates to Mumbai with his sister, Ratna (Shraddha Nigam). He meets beautiful Gitika (Namrata Shirodkar) and they fall in love. One day, as Govind defends the honor of a young girl from the brother of a hoodlum, Johnny Handsome (Sharat Saxena), he generates hatred and animosity. Johnny is humiliated by Govind and swears vengeance with the help of Sadanand Kutty (Gulshan Grover) and Karim Khan Toofani (Govind Namdeo). On the other hand, Govind befriends Ram Sevak (Alok Nath), and with his help and assistance of a landowner arranges the purchase of a large plot of land so that hawkers and small shop-owners could set up their businesses. But nothing goes according to plan. The plot of land and the owner turn out to be fake, Ram Sevak turns out to be in hand with the gangsters, and Govind gets all the blame; His sister is openly raped, and Govind himself gets seriously wounded, in broad daylight before the very eyes of the people he defended. Govind is then helped by Sudha, and he decides to teach everyone a lesson. He files an FIR against everyone in the neighbourhood who witnessed what happened to his sister except the culprits themseleves. When they are brought to court, he condemns everyone for their attitude, and then tells them to be brave and fight goondaism. Encouraged by this, the entire neighborhood decides to take on the gang. They attack the gangsters with bottles when they come to threaten them in the locality, and then move on to Johnny handsome's office, breaking everything and attacking all the goons. In join Govind and Sudha to attack the gangsters and arrest them. The criminals are sentenced and everything returns to normal. In the end, though on a happy note, Govind's sister marries a close friend of the family, and Govind agrees to marry Sudha.

Cast

Soundtrack

All lyrics are written by Sameer; all music is composed by Anu Malik

Songs
No.TitlePlaybackLength
1."Aaghaaz Karo"Babul Supriyo, Alka Yagnik 
2."Dil Dil Dil" (Female)Hema Sardesai 
3."Dil Dil Dil" (Male)Sonu Nigam 
4."Dil Ko Patthar"Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik 
5."Dosti Ho Gayi"Sonu Nigam, Sunidhi Chauhan 
6."Man Tera Mera Man"Babul Supriyo, Alka Yagnik 
7."Nau Nau Lakha"Hema Sardesai, Sunidhi Chauhan